CVE-2026-23008: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Fix KMS with 3D on HW version 10 HW version 10 does not have GB Surfaces so there is no backing buffer for surface backed FBs. This would result in a nullptr dereference and crash the driver causing a black screen.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 6.16.1, before 6.18.7 (fixed in 6.18.7); version 6.16 only; version 6.19 only

Published 2026-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.