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CVE-2026-98777NVD

Vulnerability Summary

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in a frozen process, the outdated transaction is freed with kfree()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.
Severity Level
UNKNOWN
Published Date
Oct 18, 2026
Last Modified
Oct 30, 2026
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation yet
EPSS Score (30-Day)
0.17%Probability
Root Weakness (CWE)
N/A

Affected & Patched Versions

Affected Versions
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Patched Versions
Not provided by NVD for this CVE.
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