PT-2026-116997 · Linux · Linux

CVE-2026-98778

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Published

2026-10-18

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Updated

2026-10-18

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
binder: fix is failure flag for superseded transaction cleanup
When a TF UPDATE TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction, binder release entire buffer() is called with is failure=false. Since the superseded transaction was never delivered, binder apply fd fixups() was never called and no fds were installed in the target process.
With is failure=false, the BINDER TYPE FDA cleanup handler interprets stale buffer contents as installed fd numbers and passes them to binder deferred fd close(), closing unrelated file descriptors.
Pass is failure=true since the transaction was never delivered to the target, matching the semantics of all other undelivered-transaction cleanup paths.
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Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-98778

Affected Products

Linux