CVE-2026-68248 Affecting kernel-default-livepatch-devel package, versions <6.4.0-150700.53.81.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELDEFAULTLIVEPATCHDEVEL-19915328
  • published18 Sept 2026
  • disclosed17 Sept 2026

Introduced: 17 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-68248  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-default-livepatch-devel to version 6.4.0-150700.53.81.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-default-livepatch-devel package and not the kernel-default-livepatch-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/i915: Return NULL on error in active_instance

Avoid returning &node->base when node is NULL due to OOM during GFP_ATOMIC allocation.

Discovered using AI-assisted static analysis confirmed by Intel Product Security.

(cherry picked from commit 6029bc064f0b1bac184203a50fbaaf070fa18832)

CVSS Base Scores

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