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Not yet scoredPublished Oct 14, 2026

CVE-2026-98404drm/virtio: Fix a NULL vs ERR_PTR() bug in virtio_gpu_user_framebuffer_create()

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It affects Linux. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/virtio: Fix a NULL vs ERR_PTR() bug in virtio_gpu_user_framebuffer_create() Smatch complains that returning a NULL here will lead to a NULL pointer dereference in drm_mode_addfb2(). Return an error pointer instead.

CVSS
Not yet scored
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Received
Record last updated
Oct 14, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 14, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa before 975f3cf302bb7d7336df4c630a7c07e12780ad10; from dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa before 07de0b31dd64094cd7d25729beaf2ecae74daa72; from dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa before 5eda6cda0031ba17559d56882353be39e568ec09; from dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa before 3fe8a33715265ecb24ca0bcd0a575c926da4277c; from dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa before 974845d2535a250b180e62f9ed50284f312c01a3; from dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa before 45dc2788a5b0e1e2824d1f98af521bd3acc340d7; from dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa before f1050a7d365283678b253828739d3866ae546a72; from dc5698e80cf724770283e10414054662bdf6ccfa before 94579f24e2b526a04eb41050af0ba018c6f528e7
CNA record

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