CVE-2026-98778
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix is_failure flag for superseded transaction cleanup When a TF_UPDATE_TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction, binder_release_entire_buffer() is called with is_failure=false. Since the superseded transaction was never delivered, binder_apply_fd_fixups() was never called and no fds were installed in the target process.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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"id": "CVE-2026-98778",
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"published": "2026-10-18T16:17:31.757",
"lastModified": "2026-10-30T13:21:27.397",
"vulnStatus": "Received",
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"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbinder: fix is_failure flag for superseded transaction cleanup\n\nWhen a TF_UPDATE_TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction,\nbinder_release_entire_buffer() is called with is_failure=false. Since the\nsuperseded transaction was never delivered, binder_apply_fd_fixups() was\nnever called and no fds were installed in the target process.\n\nWith is_failure=false, the BINDER_TYPE_FDA cleanup handler interprets\nstale buffer contents as installed fd numbers and passes them to\nbinder_deferred_fd_close(), closing unrelated file descriptors.\n\nPass is_failure=true since the transaction was never delivered to the\ntarget, matching the semantics of all other undelivered-transaction\ncleanup paths."
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