MediumFix available
drm/amdgpu: NULL-check BO's backing store when determining GFX12 PTE flags
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: NULL-check BO's backing store when determining GFX12 PTE flags PRT BOs may not have any backing store, so bo->tbo.resource will be NULL. Check for that before dereferencing. (cherry picked from commit 3e3fcd29b505cebed659311337ea03b7698767fc)
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 6.12.20, 6.13.8
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-21990
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 04:36 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
drm/amdgpu: NULL-check BO's backing store when determining GFX12 PTE flags
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 2 Apr 2025, 12:53 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu: NULL-check BO's backing store when determining GFX12 PTE flags PRT BOs may not have any backing store, so bo->tbo.resource will be NULL. Check for that before dereferencing. (cherry picked from commit 3e3fcd29b505cebed659311337ea03b7698767fc)
osv:CVE-2025-21990
Kernel
Fixed versions: 6.12.20, 6.13.8
Complete source record
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