7.8

CVE-2026-23317: linux Use of Uninitialized Resource

CVSS: 7.8v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-23317DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23317
Published 25-03-2026Last modified 19-10-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-23317 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Use of Uninitialized Resource vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.13%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 30 · Related 28
MGASA-2026-0097MGASA-2026-0098SUSE-SU-2026:1573-1SUSE-SU-2026:1574-1SUSE-SU-2026:1606-1SUSE-SU-2026:21114-1

Timeline

  1. 25-03-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 19-10-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Return the correct value in vmw_translate_ptr functions Before the referenced fixes these functions used a lookup function that returned a pointer. This was changed to another lookup function that returned an error code with the pointer becoming an out parameter. The error path when the lookup failed was not changed to reflect this change and the code continued to return the PTR_ERR of the now uninitialized pointer. This could cause the vmw_translate_ptr functions to return success when they actually failed causing further uninitialized and OOB accesses.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.13%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

2%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.13% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.13%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Ubuntu130 products
  • linux< 6.8.0-136.136 | All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws< 6.8.0-1061.64 | All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
  • linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Linux2 products
  • linux≥ 7ac9578e45b20e3f3c0c8eb71f5417a499a7226a, < ce3a5cf139787c186d5d54336107298cacaad2b9 | ≥ a309c7194e8a2f8bd4539b9449917913f6c2cd50, < 7e55d0788b362c93660b80cc5603031bbbdefa98 | ≥ a309c7194e8a2f8bd4539b9449917913f6c2cd50, < 36cb28b6d303a81e6ed4536017090e85e0143e42 | ≥ a309c7194e8a2f8bd4539b9449917913f6c2cd50, < 531f45589787799aa81b63e1e1f8e71db5d93dd1 | ≥ a309c7194e8a2f8bd4539b9449917913f6c2cd50, < 149f028772fa2879d9316b924ce948a6a0877e45 | ≥ a309c7194e8a2f8bd4539b9449917913f6c2cd50, < 5023ca80f9589295cb60735016e39fc5cc714243 | ≥ 6.1.7, < 6.1.167 | 6.2
  • linux_kernelEOL≥ 6.1.7, < 6.1.167 | ≥ 6.2.1, < 6.6.130 | ≥ 6.7, < 6.12.77 | ≥ 6.13, < 6.18.17 | ≥ 6.19, < 6.19.7 | 6.2 | 7.0:rc1 | 7.0:rc2 | 7.0:rc3 | 7.0:rc4 | 7.0:rc5 | 7.0:rc6 | 7.0:rc7
Debian1 product
  • linux< 6.1.170-1 | < 6.12.85-1 | < 6.19.8-1

3 vendors · 133 products

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