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CVE-2026-98778

binder: fix is_failure flag for superseded transaction cleanup

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix is_failure flag for superseded transaction cleanup When a TF_UPDATE_TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction, binder_release_entire_buffer() is called with is_failure=false. Since the superseded transaction was never delivered, binder_apply_fd_fixups() was never called and no fds were installed in the target process.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.

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b · fixed in e9b364e46d594c2ec663c9c49f10c1ca541ecc0f; From 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b · fixed in 60a9f7323ae7318a7cce0d387c318da24f1e8726; From 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b · fixed in 86cdcc87d4ba60aebf94ba3346b3c900c5cd79ff; From 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b · fixed in 1ab671b50714ad8e359cf37eb041d8044319ccdc; From 9864bb4801331daa48514face9d0f4861e4d485b · fixed in 22c135635fdd9816c0ef140d6de7b2e4fdf73e89

  • Linux Linux

    6.0

  • KernelLinux

    From 6.0.0 · fixed in 6.6.160; From 6.7.0 · fixed in 6.12.113; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.56; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.10

References 5

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