CVE-2026-98508

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98508

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98508.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98508

Downstream

Published

2026-10-18T15:17:15Z

Modified

2026-10-19T02:46:26Z

Summary

drm/virtio: fix NULL pointer dereference on fence allocation failure

Details

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

drm/virtio: fix NULL pointer dereference on fence allocation failure

virtio_gpu_fence_alloc() can fail due to memory pressure and return NULL, but its caller like virtio_gpu_init_submit() never checks it. Later, virtio_gpu_init_submit() passes the NULL fence to virtio_gpu_fence_event_create(), which unconditionally dereferences it.

Found when fuzzing the virtio driver with Syzkaller:

Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000012: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000090-0x0000000000000097]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 9991 Comm: syz.0.121 Not tainted 7.2.0 #4 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.17.0-0-gb52ca86e094d-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:virtio_gpu_fence_event_create drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c:295 [inline]
RIP: 0010:virtio_gpu_init_submit drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c:398 [inline]
RIP: 0010:virtio_gpu_execbuffer_ioctl+0xc78/0x1aa0 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c:505
Code: 85 ed 0f 85 21 09 00 00 e8 05 5a c9 fb 48 8b 44 24 10 48 8d b8 90 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 9a 0d 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 4c 89 b0 90 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900039dfad0 EFLAGS: 00010216
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffc900039dfdd8 RCX: ffffffff85f6fd3d
RDX: 0000000000000012 RSI: ffffffff85f6fd4b RDI: 0000000000000090
RBP: 0000000000000000 R0virtio_gpu_virgl_process_cmd: ctrl 0x102, error 0x1203
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8880132c4000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888073b6c700 R15: 000000000000003b
FS:  00007fab480b96c0(0000) GS:ffff8880eb6e9000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007effbf5e55a8 CR3: 0000000048d19000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
drm_ioctl_kernel+0x1f4/0x3e0 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:817
drm_ioctl+0x5f4/0xc70 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c:914
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:583 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:583
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x116/0x800 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fab471a82bd
Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fab480b9018 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fab47435fa0 RCX: 00007fab471a82bd
RDX: 00002000000000c0 RSI: 00000000c0406442 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fab480b9080 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00007fab47436038 R14: 00007fab47435fa0 R15: 00007ffe85ab0740
</TASK>
Modules linked in:
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:virtio_gpu_fence_event_create drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c:295 [inline]
RIP: 0010:virtio_gpu_init_submit drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c:398 [inline]
RIP: 0010:virtio_gpu_execbuffer_ioctl+0xc78/0x1aa0 drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_submit.c:505
Code: 85 ed 0f 85 21 09 00 00 e8 05 5a c9 fb 48 8b 44 24 10 48 8d b8 90 00 00 00 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 <80> 3c 02 00 0f 85 9a 0d 00 00 48 8b 44 24 10 4c 89 b0 90 00 00 00
RSP: 0018:ffffc900039dfad0 EFLAGS: 00010216
RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffc900039dfdd8 RCX: ffffffff85f6fd3d
RDX: 0000000000000012 RSI: ffffffff85f6fd4b RDI: 0000000000000090
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8880132c4000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888073b6c700 R15: 000000000000003b
FS:  00007fab480b96c0(0000) GS:ffff888098ae9000(0000) knlGS:00000000

---truncated---

Database specific

{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98508.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events: Introduced

70d1ace56db6c79d39dbe9c0d5244452b67e2fde

Fixed

9571ab7493561afb4624d69572a7ebb67d76d10f

Fixed

a8b83ed4a4b1d04c756f53e375e86d3881f66e72

Fixed

f2f1683955b95c9b958069da3050f7e8e129ff88

Fixed

ecced0076b700b5896e52af10d0776be8be36b0d

Fixed

846b3c64fe3e77d9db20a7e3e62dbbb637c773e1

Type: GIT
Repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events: Introduced

6.1.54

Fixed

6.2

Type: GIT
Repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events: Introduced

6.5.4

Fixed

6.6

Type: GIT
Repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events: Introduced

98d3e7c5f757577394f036e0301db9e570342566

Type: GIT
Repo: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events: Introduced

4037dcd70c3335600a2a95ec6229d70859bd37a1

Affected versions

v6.*

v6.1.100

v6.1.101

v6.1.102

v6.1.103

v6.1.104

v6.1.105

v6.1.106

v6.1.107

v6.1.108

v6.1.109

v6.1.110

v6.1.111

v6.1.112

v6.1.113

v6.1.114

v6.1.115

v6.1.116

v6.1.117

v6.1.118

v6.1.119

v6.1.120

v6.1.121

v6.1.122

v6.1.123

v6.1.124

v6.1.125

v6.1.126

v6.1.127

v6.1.128

v6.1.129

v6.1.130

v6.1.131

v6.1.132

v6.1.133

v6.1.134

v6.1.135

v6.1.136

v6.1.137

v6.1.138

v6.1.139

v6.1.140

v6.1.141

v6.1.142

v6.1.143

v6.1.144

v6.1.145

v6.1.146

v6.1.147

v6.1.148

v6.1.149

v6.1.150

v6.1.151

v6.1.152

v6.1.153

v6.1.154

v6.1.155

v6.1.156

v6.1.157

v6.1.158

v6.1.159

v6.1.160

v6.1.161

v6.1.162

v6.1.163

v6.1.164

v6.1.165

v6.1.166

v6.1.167

v6.1.168

v6.1.169

v6.1.170

v6.1.171

v6.1.172

v6.1.173

v6.1.174

v6.1.175

v6.1.176

v6.1.177

v6.1.178

v6.1.179

v6.1.180

v6.1.181

v6.1.182

v6.1.183

v6.1.184

v6.1.185

v6.1.186

v6.1.187

v6.1.188

v6.1.189

v6.1.190

v6.1.54

v6.1.55

v6.1.56

v6.1.57

v6.1.58

v6.1.59

v6.1.60

v6.1.61

v6.1.62

v6.1.63

v6.1.64

v6.1.65

v6.1.66

v6.1.67

v6.1.68

v6.1.69

v6.1.70

v6.1.71

v6.1.72

v6.1.73

v6.1.74

v6.1.75

v6.1.76

v6.1.77

v6.1.78

v6.1.79

v6.1.80

v6.1.81

v6.1.82

v6.1.83

v6.1.84

v6.1.85

v6.1.86

v6.1.87

v6.1.88

v6.1.89

v6.1.90

v6.1.91

v6.1.92

v6.1.93

v6.1.94

v6.1.95

v6.1.96

v6.1.97

v6.1.98

v6.1.99

v6.5.10

v6.5.11

v6.5.12

v6.5.13

v6.5.4

v6.5.5

v6.5.6

v6.5.7

v6.5.8

v6.5.9

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98508.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name: Kernel

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

6.6.0

Fixed

6.6.158

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

6.7.0

Fixed

6.12.112

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

6.13.0

Fixed

6.18.55

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

6.19.0

Fixed

7.2.9

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98508.json"