CVE-2026-98778 PUBLISHED

binder: fix is_failure flag for superseded transaction cleanup

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binder: fix is_failure flag for superseded transaction cleanup

When a TF_UPDATE_TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction, binder_release_entire_buffer() is called with is_failure=false. Since the superseded transaction was never delivered, binder_apply_fd_fixups() was never called and no fds were installed in the target process.

With is_failure=false, the BINDER_TYPE_FDA cleanup handler interprets stale buffer contents as installed fd numbers and passes them to binder_deferred_fd_close(), closing unrelated file descriptors.

Pass is_failure=true since the transaction was never delivered to the target, matching the semantics of all other undelivered-transaction cleanup paths.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b to 60a9f7323ae7318a7cce0d387c318da24f1e8726 (excl.)
  • affected from 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b to 86cdcc87d4ba60aebf94ba3346b3c900c5cd79ff (excl.)
  • affected from 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b to 1ab671b50714ad8e359cf37eb041d8044319ccdc (excl.)
  • affected from 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b to 22c135635fdd9816c0ef140d6de7b2e4fdf73e89 (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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