System crash via uninitialized interrupt ring dereference
Published Feb 14, 2026 · Updated Feb 14, 2026
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux Kernel allows local users to crash AMD APU systems during SVM page-fault recovery. The amdgpu_gmc_filter_faults_remove function reads the ih1 interrupt timestamp without checking whether the secondary ring was initialized, causing amdgpu_ih_decode_iv_ts_helper to dereference ih->ring[]. The path requires an affected Raven or Renoir-class APU with retry faults enabled; exploitation interrupts the host by crashing the kernel.
Summary
What happened
NULL pointer dereference in the Linux Kernel allows local users to crash AMD APU systems during SVM page-fault recovery. The amdgpu_gmc_filter_faults_remove function reads the ih1 interrupt timestamp without checking whether the secondary ring was initialized, causing amdgpu_ih_decode_iv_ts_helper to dereference ih->ring[]. The path requires an affected Raven or Renoir-class APU with retry faults enabled; exploitation interrupts the host by crashing the kernel.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-23163
- Published
- Feb 14, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 14, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux Kernel
- Classifications
- CWE-476, T1499
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Feb 14, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 14, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.4
- Affected versionversion=dd299441654fd8209056c7985ddf2373ebaba6ed <7611d7faccc1218be477671f892a89b25c0cb352
- Affected versionversion=dd299441654fd8209056c7985ddf2373ebaba6ed <8b1ecc9377bc641533cd9e76dfa3aee3cd04a007
- Affected versionversion=dd299441654fd8209056c7985ddf2373ebaba6ed <ac251d17d8af58ddc3daba65eaf0a99e63dc4284
- Affected versionversion=dd299441654fd8209056c7985ddf2373ebaba6ed <c74e2dbb5316898fb2113a8ea3a93b27698dbf68
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