CVE-2026-98608 PUBLISHED

drm/virtio: fix object leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_ioctl()

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: fix object leak in virtio_gpu_resource_create_ioctl()

virtio_gpu_resource_create_ioctl() calls drm_gem_object_release() on the drm_gem_handle_create() error path instead of dropping the reference it owns, so obj->funcs->free() never runs and the virtio_gpu_object, its pages and sg table, the resource id and the host-side resource are leaked.

Use drm_gem_object_put() instead.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 to d33d5ef8225538f76e4598c09e2074834667bb8d (excl.)
  • affected from 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 to 1586ee6107acab3b14510ac6af939f1253269df8 (excl.)
  • affected from 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 to 83c899104496677068fbbd2e42f28fd625f9cd85 (excl.)
  • affected from 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 to 77dee8e9106d62bf4f51b646c801f51f8ee77339 (excl.)
  • affected from 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 to 574ae9fa5fd3658bee23cb544fe5a0d1d750016a (excl.)
  • affected from 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 to b516446a25bf365cfffe3d7884ea6637f7f70862 (excl.)
  • affected from 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 to 749d8bb964b3414ef967d5ec80f2f1b5b3a510d9 (excl.)
  • affected from 62fb7a5e10962ac6ae2a2d2dbd3aedcb2a3e3257 to 477bc3068fc3777b9d8ffd79e265b0dfdf2d3a6b (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.4 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.4 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.271 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • 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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