Vulnerability in Linux

[ Description ]Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/bridge: samsung-dsim: fix TE GPIO lifetime for host attach When the Exynos DSI driver was generalized into samsung-dsim, the TE GPIO acquisition was switched from gpiod_get_optional() to devm_gpiod_get_optional() while keeping the matching gpiod_put() calls. That combination is wrong for a managed descriptor. However, dropping the puts and keeping the managed get is also wrong: samsung_dsim_register_te_irq() runs from the DSI host attach callback, and host detach/reattach can happen without destroying the device that owns the managed action. A second attach would then request the GPIO again without having released it. Switch back to a non-managed gpiod_get_optional() and keep the explicit gpiod_put() on the request_irq() error path and in samsung_dsim_unregister_te_irq(). [Luca: remove unnecessary comment]

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund18 Oct 2026WID-SEC-2026-4019

  Linux Kernel: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-98866CVE-2026-98624CVE-2026-98745+326 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• git.kernel.org/stable/c/5759bbef951c39d264ac0f47daa4137d01403aea
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/77a43e00c57486a5212ef22d4665cafad62a5d4b
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/9b796251c3cca45a33a5c859c6818c58aa982277
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/ada667890773e033d2f40dc94176e3beb930b516
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebffd70e4877bb7554974cf975a27872f2bb225f