Reliance on undefined behavior in Linux kernel - CVE-2026-92505
Published: September 18, 2026
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a local user to trigger undefined behavior.
The vulnerability exists due to reliance on undefined behavior in the AMD IOMMU devid_write debugfs function when processing a device ID for which no matching PCI segment is found. A local user can write such a device ID to the debugfs interface to trigger undefined behavior.
Affected software
Ubuntu
linux (Ubuntu package)
linux-aws (Ubuntu package)
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package)
linux-oracle (Ubuntu package)
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package)
linux-hwe-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2026-92505
linux (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-42.42
linux-aws (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1016.17
linux-gcp (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1016.18
linux-oracle (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1015.16
linux-ibm (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1017.17
linux-hwe-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-42.42~24.04.1
linux-oem-7.0 (Ubuntu package) - update to 7.0.0-1017.17