# CVE-2026-43318: drm/amdgpu: fix sync handling in amdgpu_dma_buf_move_notify

> A synchronization bug in the AMD GPU driver can cause page faults and system instability during buffer moves between GPUs.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 8 May 2026
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-86121, BELL-CVE-2026-43318, DEBIAN-CVE-2026-43318, GHSA-hgcg-jj48-wj2h, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2026-43318, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2026-43318, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2204-CVE-2026-43318, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2026-43318, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-43318

## What is CVE-2026-43318?

CVE-2026-43318 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 May 2026. 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/amdgpu: fix sync handling in amdgpu_dma_buf_move_notify

Invalidating a dmabuf will impact other users of the shared BO.
In the scenario where process A moves the BO, it needs to inform
process B about the move and process B will need to update its
page table.

The commit fixes a synchronisation bug caused by the use of the
ticket: it made amdgpu_vm_handle_moved behave as if updating
the page table immediately was correct but in this case it's not.

An example is the following scenario, with 2 GPUs and glxgears
running on GPU0 and Xorg running on GPU1, on a system where P2P
PCI isn't supported:

glxgears:
  export linear buffer from GPU0 and import using GPU1
  submit frame rendering to GPU0
  submit tiled->linear blit
Xorg:
  copy of linear buffer

The sequence of jobs would be:
  drm_sched_job_run                       # GPU0, frame rendering
  drm_sched_job_queue                     # GPU0, blit
  drm_sched_job_done                      # GPU0, frame rendering
  drm_sched_job_run                       # GPU0, blit
  move linear buffer for GPU1 access      #
  amdgpu_dma_buf_move_notify -> update pt # GPU0

It this point the blit job on GPU0 is still running and would
likely produce a page fault.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-43318?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2026-43318?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2026-43318 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43318 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-43318 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-43318 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 8 May 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-43318 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43318/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43318/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43318
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43318
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-43318

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-43318/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.