CVE-2026-63885 (GCVE-0-2026-63885)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-19 14:54
Modified
2026-10-19 20:17
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/gem: fix race between change_handle and handle_delete drm_gem_change_handle_ioctl leaves the old handle live in the IDR during the window between spin_unlock(table_lock) and the final spin_lock(table_lock). A concurrent drm_gem_handle_delete on the old handle succeeds in this window, decrements handle_count to 0, and frees the GEM object while the new handle's IDR entry still references it. NULL the old handle's IDR entry before dropping table_lock so that any concurrent GEM_CLOSE on the old handle sees NULL and returns -EINVAL. Restore the old entry on the prime-bookkeeping error path.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Version: 672464dd53231509c9c771110798c56d4660e19e
Version: 61bd96d3e5472c253f9c1ab77608f0c8aaa9d025
Version: 5e28b7b94408897e41c63477aabc9e1db439bc8c
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