CVE-2026-98609
Status: ReceivedUnscored—
Severity—Unscored
Exploitation probability0.18 %higher than 7% of CVEs
Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog
Public exploitNot knownno public code found
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/virtio: fix object leak when drm_gem_handle_create() fails
virtio_gpu_gem_create() owns the reference taken by virtio_gpu_object_create(). On the drm_gem_handle_create() error path it calls drm_gem_object_release() instead of dropping that reference.
drm_gem_object_release() is the inverse of drm_gem_object_init() and does not touch the reference count or call obj->funcs->free(), so it is only correct as the last step of a destructor, as in virtio_gpu_cleanup_object().
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Using it here leaves the bo at refcount 1 with no remaining reference, so virtio_gpu_free_object() never runs and the shmem pages, sg table and virtio_gpu_object are leaked. Since virtio_gpu_object_create() has already set bo->created, VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_UNREF is not queued either, leaking the host-side resource and the resource id.
drm_gem_handle_create_tail() drops the handle reference on all of its internal error paths, so the caller only has to drop its own. Use drm_gem_object_put(), matching the success path below.
CVSS
NVD hasn't assigned a CVSS score to this CVE (common since the April 2026 policy change).
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- 0.18 %
- Percentile among all scored CVEs
- 7
- Score date
- 10/20/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.
References
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- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13423a058187c2039aa8cb235c916be4477221b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/264ae8ac8fd625b6c118baf16c111adeee2ec632
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36570ef2244cc4d7563b1f0157bc0f032498638c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/372e9c3d45f664a2c000427ccbf6cdc2f99b3170
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/687be2f8b5e0e0ca9a7028f8f6413d0ed3fbb9dc
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a93dce15dfef200c346b050a2acbed516cc62706
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2edd2d78d2cf8446de017adec9598feefed3297
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f75066c79d1eec453c0d386ef8636873d1e11f2c
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/virtio: fix object leak when drm_gem_handle_create() fails\n\nvirtio_gpu_gem_create() owns the reference taken by\nvirtio_gpu_object_create(). On the drm_gem_handle_create() error path it\ncalls drm_gem_object_release() instead of dropping that reference.\n\ndrm_gem_object_release() is the inverse of drm_gem_object_init() and does\nnot touch the reference count or call obj->funcs->free(), so it is only\ncorrect as the last step of a destructor, as in\nvirtio_gpu_cleanup_object(). Using it here leaves the bo at refcount 1\nwith no remaining reference, so virtio_gpu_free_object() never runs and\nthe shmem pages, sg table and virtio_gpu_object are leaked. Since\nvirtio_gpu_object_create() has already set bo->created,\nVIRTIO_GPU_CMD_RESOURCE_UNREF is not queued either, leaking the host-side\nresource and the resource id.\n\ndrm_gem_handle_create_tail() drops the handle reference on all of its\ninternal error paths, so the caller only has to drop its own. Use\ndrm_gem_object_put(), matching the success path below."
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