CVE-2026-63855 (GCVE-0-2026-63855)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-19 14:04
Modified
2026-08-05 12:36
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/amdgpu/vcn: set no_user_fence for VCN v2.5 enc/dec rings VCN encoder and decoder rings do not support 64-bit user fence writes, reject CS submissions with user fences. (cherry picked from commit efc9dd5590894109bce9a0bfe1fa5592dd6b20b1)
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