CVE-2025-68286 drm/amd/display: Check NULL before accessing
A NULL pointer dereference in the AMD display driver can cause a kernel crash, leading to denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-68286?
CVE-2025-68286 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Check NULL before accessing
[WHAT] IGT kms_cursor_legacy's long-nonblocking-modeset-vs-cursor-atomic fails with NULL pointer dereference. This can be reproduced with both an eDP panel and a DP monitors connected.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 13 UID: 0 PID: 2960 Comm: kms_cursor_lega Not tainted 6.16.0-99-custom #8 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: AMD ........ RIP: 0010:dc_stream_get_scanoutpos+0x34/0x130 [amdgpu] Code: 57 4d 89 c7 41 56 49 89 ce 41 55 49 89 d5 41 54 49 89 fc 53 48 83 ec 18 48 8b 87 a0 64 00 00 48 89 75 d0 48 c7 c6 e0 41 30 c2 <48> 8b 38 48 8b 9f 68 06 00 00 e8 8d d7 fd ff 31 c0 48 81 c3 e0 02 RSP: 0018:ffffd0f3c2bd7608 EFLAGS: 00010292 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffd0f3c2bd7668 RDX: ffffd0f3c2bd7664 RSI: ffffffffc23041e0 RDI: ffff8b32494b8000 RBP: ffffd0f3c2bd7648 R08: ffffd0f3c2bd766c R09: ffffd0f3c2bd7760 R10: ffffd0f3c2bd7820 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8b32494b8000 R13: ffffd0f3c2bd7664 R14: ffffd0f3c2bd7668 R15: ffffd0f3c2bd766c FS: 000071f631b68700(0000) GS:ffff8b399f114000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000001b8105000 CR4: 0000000000f50ef0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: <TASK> dm_crtc_get_scanoutpos+0xd7/0x180 [amdgpu] amdgpu_display_get_crtc_scanoutpos+0x86/0x1c0 [amdgpu] ? __pfx_amdgpu_crtc_get_scanout_position+0x10/0x10[amdgpu] amdgpu_crtc_get_scanout_position+0x27/0x50 [amdgpu] drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp_internal+0xf7/0x400 drm_crtc_vblank_helper_get_vblank_timestamp+0x1c/0x30 drm_crtc_get_last_vbltimestamp+0x55/0x90 drm_crtc_next_vblank_start+0x45/0xa0 drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_fences+0x81/0x1f0 ...
(cherry picked from commit 621e55f1919640acab25383362b96e65f2baea3c)
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68286?
How do I fix CVE-2025-68286?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-68286 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68286 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as AZL-72622, BELL-CVE-2025-68286, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-68286, GHSA-w4gg-v9h7-g2vh, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-68286, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-68286 and 3 more.