# CVE-2026-31540

> Vulnerability · severity: **MEDIUM** (CVSS 5.5).

## Description

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

drm/i915/gt: Check set_default_submission() before deferencing

When the i915 driver firmware binaries are not present, the
set_default_submission pointer is not set. This pointer is
dereferenced during suspend anyways.

Add a check to make sure it is set before dereferencing.

[   23.289926] PM: suspend entry (deep)
[   23.293558] Filesystems sync: 0.000 seconds
[   23.298010] Freezing user space processes
[   23.302771] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.000 seconds)
[   23.309766] OOM killer disabled.
[   23.313027] Freezing remaining freezable tasks
[   23.318540] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[   23.342038] serial 00:05: disabled
[   23.345719] serial 00:02: disabled
[   23.349342] serial 00:01: disabled
[   23.353782] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[   23.358993] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[   23.361635] ata1.00: Entering standby power mode
[   23.368863] ata2.00: Entering standby power mode
[   23.445187] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[   23.452194] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
[   23.457896] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
[   23.463065] PGD 0 P4D 0
[   23.465640] Oops: Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[   23.469869] CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 211 Comm: kworker/u48:18 Tainted: G S      W           6.19.0-rc4-00020-gf0b9d8eb98df #10 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[   23.482512] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [W]=WARN
[   23.496511] Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn
[   23.501087] RIP: 0010:0x0
[   23.503755] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
[   23.510324] RSP: 0018:ffffb4a60065fca8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[   23.515592] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9f428290e000 RCX: 000000000000000f
[   23.522765] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000282 RDI: ffff9f428290e000
[   23.529937] RBP: ffff9f4282907070 R08: ffff9f4281130428 R09: 00000000ffffffff
[   23.53

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-31540
- **Published:** 2026-04-24
- **CVSS severity:** MEDIUM
- **CVSS base score:** 5.5
- **CWE codes:** CWE-476

## Affected products

- `linux:linux_kernel`

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31540

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2026-31540. Retrieved 2026-07-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2026-31540. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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