Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 14, 2026
CVE-2026-98404
CVE-2026-98404
Description
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.
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References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/07de0b31dd64094cd7d25729beaf2ecae74daa72nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fe8a33715265ecb24ca0bcd0a575c926da4277cnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/45dc2788a5b0e1e2824d1f98af521bd3acc340d7nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/5eda6cda0031ba17559d56882353be39e568ec09nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/94579f24e2b526a04eb41050af0ba018c6f528e7nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/974845d2535a250b180e62f9ed50284f312c01a3nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/975f3cf302bb7d7336df4c630a7c07e12780ad10nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/f1050a7d365283678b253828739d3866ae546a72nvd
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