CVE-2026-98777 PUBLISHED

binder: fix leaked fd fixups on TF_UPDATE_TXN supersede

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

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When a TF_UPDATE_TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction in a frozen process, the outdated transaction is freed with kfree() directly.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.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b to 7fd609fb0e9dcbc4d7a1e4da1af5368c0555ff55 (excl.)
  • affected from 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b to 1299cb3fb061598496086fc87ff291057831148e (excl.)
  • affected from 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b to 6673f4f21e2fddfed0abe1eb9045cc958e6db130 (excl.)
  • affected from 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b to c4c02084d6687d5cd5edccaf52cc45e5160f1184 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.0 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.0 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.113 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.56 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.10 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc6 to * (incl.)

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