CVE-2026-98404 (GCVE-0-2026-98404)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-14 13:26 – Updated: 2026-10-19 09:18
VLAI
Title
drm/virtio: Fix a NULL vs ERR_PTR() bug in virtio_gpu_user_framebuffer_create()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/virtio: Fix a NULL vs ERR_PTR() bug in virtio_gpu_user_framebuffer_create() Smatch complains that returning a NULL here will lead to a NULL pointer dereference in drm_mode_addfb2(). Return an error pointer instead.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 6992 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa , < 975f3cf302bb7d7336df4c630a7c07e12780ad10 (git)
Affected: dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa , < 07de0b31dd64094cd7d25729beaf2ecae74daa72 (git)
Affected: dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa , < 5eda6cda0031ba17559d56882353be39e568ec09 (git)
Affected: dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa , < 3fe8a33715265ecb24ca0bcd0a575c926da4277c (git)
Affected: dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa , < 974845d2535a250b180e62f9ed50284f312c01a3 (git)
Affected: dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa , < 45dc2788a5b0e1e2824d1f98af521bd3acc340d7 (git)
Affected: dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa , < f1050a7d365283678b253828739d3866ae546a72 (git)
Affected: dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa , < 94579f24e2b526a04eb41050af0ba018c6f528e7 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.2
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.271 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.222 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.189 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.158 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.111 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.53 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.7 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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