CVE-2026-98523
CVE-2026-98523CVE-2026-98523
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/client: fix restore of partially initialized client
I got a null-ptr-deref report when closing a DRM file descriptor:
WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c:2031 at
__drm_atomic_helper_set_config+0x18e/0x1b0 [drm]
Call Trace:
drm_client_modeset_commit_atomic+0x16b/0x220 [drm]
drm_client_modeset_commit_locked+0x56/0x160 [drm]
drm_client_modeset_commit+0x21/0x40 [drm]
__drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked.part.0+0x7b/0x80
drm_fbdev_client_restore+0xe/0x20 [drm_client_lib]
drm_client_dev_restore+0x9f/0xc0 [drm]
drm_release+0xc5/0xe0 [drm]
The warning is followed by a NULL pointer dereference:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
RIP:
__drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked.part.0+0x41/0x80
[drm_kms_helper]
Call Trace:
drm_fbdev_client_restore+0xe/0x20 [drm_client_lib]
drm_client_dev_restore+0x9f/0xc0 [drm]
drm_release+0xc5/0xe0 [drm]
__fput+0xdc/0x2b0
__x64_sys_close+0x39/0x
Scoring
| Last modified | 2026-10-18 |