CVE-2026-63879: linux Race Condition
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-63879 is a high (CVSS 7.8) Race Condition vulnerability in linux. EPSS estimates a 0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 25 · Related 21Timeline
- 19-07-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 19-10-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: fix amdgpu_hmm_range_get_pages The notifier sequence must only be read once or otherwise we could work with invalid pages. While at it also fix the coding style, e.g. drop the pre-initialized return value and use the common define for 2G range. (cherry picked from commit c08972f555945cda57b0adb72272a37910153390)
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVDNIST7.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.14%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
3%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
-0.03 pp
From 0.17% on 20-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Ubuntu141 products
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 7.0.0-28.28
- linux-allwinner-5.19All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-awsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 7.0.0-1009.9
- linux-aws-5.0All versions (No fix recorded)
- linux-aws-5.11All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian1 product
- linuxAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 7.0.12-1
Linux1 product
- linux≥ c1420a5dd4dd2a1ffc86965ad1c6f439afb130bc, < fa34d3e14cb763b50702e8a0f7d4cfd877a73ab9 | ≥ c1420a5dd4dd2a1ffc86965ad1c6f439afb130bc, < 2fd24407457a6b181ba827705678da70e528dcd0 | ≥ c1420a5dd4dd2a1ffc86965ad1c6f439afb130bc, < 962d684b5dc0741dcd93485d41b450de402d5592 | 6.2
3 vendors · 143 products