A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's i915 graphics driver. When the i915 driver firmware binaries are not present, a critical pointer is dereferenced during the system suspend operation. This can allow a local user to trigger a kernel NULL pointer dereference, leading to a system crash and a Denial of Service (DoS).

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected kernel-rt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31540 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31540 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026042422-CVE-2026-31540-c37f@gregkh/T