CVE-2026-98777

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98777
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98777.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-98777
Downstream
Published
2026-10-18T15:48:13Z
Modified
2026-10-19T02:47:20Z
Summary
binder: fix leaked fd fixups on TF_UPDATE_TXN supersede
Details

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When a TF_UPDATE_TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction in a frozen process, the outdated transaction is freed with kfree() directly.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

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/98xxx/CVE-2026-98777.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
9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b
Fixed
7fd609fb0e9dcbc4d7a1e4da1af5368c0555ff55
Fixed
1299cb3fb061598496086fc87ff291057831148e
Fixed
6673f4f21e2fddfed0abe1eb9045cc958e6db130
Fixed
c4c02084d6687d5cd5edccaf52cc45e5160f1184

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98777.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.0.0
Fixed
6.12.113
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.56
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.10

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-98777.json"