CVE-2026-98777 (GCVE-0-2026-98777)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-18 15:48 – Updated: 2026-10-21 12:56
VLAI
Title
binder: fix leaked fd fixups on TF_UPDATE_TXN supersede
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix leaked fd fixups on TF_UPDATE_TXN supersede When a TF_UPDATE_TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction in a frozen process, the outdated transaction is freed with kfree() directly. This skips binder_free_txn_fixups(), leaking all binder_txn_fd_fixup entries and their fget()'d struct file references. The leaked file refcounts never reach zero, so the struct file objects are permanently pinned in memory. They survive process exit and accumulate across invocations until file-max exhaustion. Every other transaction cleanup path (binder_free_transaction(), binder_transaction() error paths, binder_release_work()) correctly calls binder_free_txn_fixups(). Add the missing call before kfree() in the t_outdated cleanup block.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7063 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b , < a7329ea53d04f0c6135d02905810cd6f42acdf45 (git)
Affected: 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b , < 7fd609fb0e9dcbc4d7a1e4da1af5368c0555ff55 (git)
Affected: 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b , < 1299cb3fb061598496086fc87ff291057831148e (git)
Affected: 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b , < 6673f4f21e2fddfed0abe1eb9045cc958e6db130 (git)
Affected: 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b , < c4c02084d6687d5cd5edccaf52cc45e5160f1184 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.0
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.0 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.113 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.56 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.10 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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