CVE-2026-46229
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure KFD VRAM allocations se…
Impact
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdkfd: Clear VRAM on allocation to prevent stale data exposure KFD VRAM allocations set AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_WIPE_ON_RELEASE but not AMDGPU_GEM_CREATE_VRAM_CLEARED, leaving freshly allocated VRAM with stale data from prior use observable by compute kernels. The GEM ioctl path already sets VRAM_CLEARED for all userspace allocations via amdgpu_gem_create_ioctl() and amdgpu_mode_dumb_create(). The KFD path was missing this flag, allowing stale page table remnants to leak into user buffers. This causes crashes in RCCL P2P transport where non-zero data in ptrExchange/head/tail fields corrupts the protocol handshake.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux Kernel | from 5.4 before 6.6.140 from 6.7 before 6.12.90 from 6.13 before 6.18.32 from 6.19 before 7.0.9 |
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/047d44d8d29a6a1a5757256837aa9dd78e3cd0b5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1db431380879fd9d28b763a88a0c0431be5be8df
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32b153658f017ad2f5bf8aab479e8d16ac95bc3a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bcf59545c84a5105d14d59f40069ef4c033584e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77d0b5d11387071770246fd0185a69fa28e8e109
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad52d61d82181dbdb7f05826de38352d5e550cc2