CVE-2026-74440

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-15. a secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 5 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

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

drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL

Before arming a user job, xe_exec_ioctl() only added the VM's dma-resv KERNEL slot as a dependency. That slot covers rebinds and the kernel operations of the VM's private BOs, but not external BOs (bo->vm == NULL), which carry their kernel operations (evictions, moves, ...) in their own dma-resv KERNEL slot.

The DMA_RESV_USAGE_KERNEL slot is the cross-driver contract for memory management operations that must complete before the BO or its backing store may be used: any accessor is required to wait on the KERNEL fences before touching the resv. By skipping the external BOs' KERNEL slots, the exec path violated that contract and could schedule a user job while a kernel operation on an external BO mapped by the VM was still in flight, racing against it and potentially reading or writing memory that was being moved.

Replace the VM-only dependency with an iteration over every object locked by the exec, adding each object's KERNEL slot as a job dependency. This covers the VM resv (rebinds and private BOs) as well as every external BO, mirroring the drm_gpuvm_resv_add_fence() call that later publishes the job fence to the same set of objects. Long-running mode continues to skip this, as before.

(cherry picked from commit a6b842acf3ddd1efc53a56de9260cfa718fb35e7)

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8(high)
EG Risk
40(Track)
EG Risk 40/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity78% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
3%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 15, 2026

Last Modified

August 17, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Aug 17, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af80e2bfde9312c76b60cf9274248dce0410b30d
generic

drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d363d00bc9799b90a0dc89eb1c5dcb909c042ee
generic

drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21976fe5258494ac38b63d103be81bf1180ae4ae
generic

drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1738db550334adca0e7fcf0ef684198fb7462779

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-74440(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 30× in last 7d / 30× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-08-21 04:40 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-21 04:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-20 22:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-08-20 17:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-08-20 05:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-19 18:22 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-08-19 18:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-08-19 05:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-08-18 17:49 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-08-18 17:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-08-18 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-18 06:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-08-17 18:55 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-08-17 18:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-08-17 06:25 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-08-17 06:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-08-17 05:55 UTCEG score recompute 7.80
  21. 2026-08-17 05:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-08-17 05:54 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.8 · severity → HIGH
  23. 2026-08-17 05:25 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-08-17 05:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-08-17 05:25 UTCMITRE cvelistV5
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  1. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-08-15 13:27 UTCNVD update
  4. 2026-08-15 12:41 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-08-15 12:37 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-74440?
CVE-2026-74440 is a high vulnerability published on August 15, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe: Wait on external BO kernel fences in exec IOCTL Before arming a user job, xeexecioctl() only added the VM's dma-resv KERNEL slot as a dependency. That slot covers rebinds and the kernel operations of the VM's private BOs,…
When was CVE-2026-74440 disclosed?
CVE-2026-74440 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 15, 2026, with the most recent update on August 17, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-74440 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-74440 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 97.1% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-74440?
CVE-2026-74440 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-74440?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-74440, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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