CVE-2026-98606 PUBLISHED

drm/virtio: release the GEM object on virtio_gpu_vram_create() errors

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

drm/virtio: release the GEM object on virtio_gpu_vram_create() errors

virtio_gpu_vram_create() frees the object with a bare kfree(vram) on both error paths after drm_gem_private_object_init() has run, and on the second one after drm_gem_create_mmap_offset() has linked obj->vma_node into the device's VMA offset manager. The freed object stays in that interval tree, so a later lookup or insertion walks freed memory, and the dma_resv and gpuva lock are never destroyed.

Call drm_gem_object_release() before kfree() on both paths.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 16845c5d540929d2f4dc845f11fbbb238e69170a to 977c2934064969503cabf98b1135d202ff62822e (excl.)
  • affected from 16845c5d540929d2f4dc845f11fbbb238e69170a to 5118b5fdf1eb9922a0cdd2afd25252081e2d4302 (excl.)
  • affected from 16845c5d540929d2f4dc845f11fbbb238e69170a to a9bb8f8fd5694185c2f71ff91869afb300aab392 (excl.)
  • affected from 16845c5d540929d2f4dc845f11fbbb238e69170a to 03bdbf182082694ab2add620d85f1a8b8f51bbbc (excl.)
  • affected from 16845c5d540929d2f4dc845f11fbbb238e69170a to 5c2cb3dd1447752b73d4f44d6b7434bc5259bfec (excl.)
  • affected from 16845c5d540929d2f4dc845f11fbbb238e69170a to 7c8deb77d05bcc8f79e255f669d82ec6ce91be12 (excl.)
  • affected from 16845c5d540929d2f4dc845f11fbbb238e69170a to 036d28db1818af2f9d80db771f5405da84d7732d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.11 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.11 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.222 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.189 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.158 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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