CVE-2026-99147 json
drm/exec: don't immediately add prelocked obj to array of locked objs
published 14d ago modified 12d ago also EUVD-2026-111899
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 6%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/exec: don't immediately add prelocked obj to array of locked objs
When a contention is detected the drm_exec object grabs a reference to the contended object, unlocks all other objects and pre-locks the contended one before anything else.
The problem is that it is possible that this pre-locked object was about to be destroyed and drm_exec is now holding the last reference to it.
So we never actually see this pre-locked object again to be explicitly locked and so also never reserve a slot for a dma_fence object on it.
Should the driver now use drm_exec_for_each_locked_object() to add a new fence to all locked objects we eventually see a warning or even a BUG_ON() to prevent random memory corruption.
Fix this by keeping the prelocked object out of the array of locked objs until it was explicitly mentioned by the driver again.
If the prelocked object is never mentioned again by the driver just unlock and drop the reference at the end of the locking loop.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 7.3
- linux Debian 13 6.12.115-2
- linux Debian 14 7.2.13-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-99147
- linux Ubuntu 26.10 7.3.0-10.10
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.10 7.3.0-1004.4
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.10 7.3.0-1004.4
- linux-raspi Ubuntu 26.10 7.3.0-1004.4
- linux-riscv Ubuntu 26.10 7.3.0-10.10.1
- linux-oracle Ubuntu 26.10 7.3.0-1004.4
- linux-realtime Ubuntu 26.10 7.3.0-10.10.1
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-99147
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- kernel Azure Linux 3.0 6.6.161.1-1
azure linux advisories AZL-111278
Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/74b4d2370a9e2b77247063dfa05f452766102676 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9dd91a22f076a4d19f14d82a5ab790c6bbaa073e commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/96d9996e5dbcfabed052c0d9377a382c95fed607 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a10cd79c4d9a90334fece32fef3a8e5b1a9727b commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/26401a4999f1596a515b2e704e7066ac09306488 commit
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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-99147 updated cvss 5.5
kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via improper locked object handling in drm_exec
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-selftests-internal Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8not affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/74b4d2370a9e2b77247063dfa05f452766102676
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/9dd91a22f076a4d19f14d82a5ab790c6bbaa073e
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/96d9996e5dbcfabed052c0d9377a382c95fed607
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/7a10cd79c4d9a90334fece32fef3a8e5b1a9727b
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/26401a4999f1596a515b2e704e7066ac09306488
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-99147
- NVD CVE-2026-99147
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