CVE-2026-98528

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98528
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98528.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98528
Downstream
Published
2026-10-18T15:17:46Z
Modified
2026-10-19T02:46:30Z
Summary
gpio: cdev: fix kernel stack leak to user-space in error path
Details

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

gpio: cdev: fix kernel stack leak to user-space in error path

If we fail to acquire the GPIO chip guard in gpio_desc_to_lineinfo(), we return immediately before zeroing the info struct we'll end up passing to the user-space later in lineinfo_get_v1(). This may leak the kernel stack contents. Make gpio_desc_to_lineinfo() return int so that the -ENODEV returned on failure to acquire the guard can be propagated to the callers.

While not strictly necessary: move the memset() before trying to acquire the SRCU read lock too for good measure.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98528.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
d83cee3d2bb131c7fca7e19f1e33dc7530fd7083
Fixed
8460ee5216ab9a38263b01dca4b0a27e083f70f3
Fixed
cf3d043582e106a0e57002bec8a6de8929ba3e1c
Fixed
60a466f231905cd96ae6f0f3c44a710c97873dac
Fixed
1feb5d39b05afd902ed9fc902ec5b15be03a4bdb

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98528.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.9.0
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-2026-98528.json"