Medium 5.5Published Apr 3, 2026

CVE-2026-23430drm/vmwgfx: Don't overwrite KMS surface dirty tracker

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 7:50 PM ET)

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Don't overwrite KMS surface dirty tracker We were overwriting the surface's dirty tracker here causing a memory leak.

CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Linux
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: May 11, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Linux Linux linux:linux (from the name)	965544150d1cadf0e8f5bb6c13c19697e46e1429 builds before 3f300a41a3668095688aa4551214e8080829fa93; 965544150d1cadf0e8f5bb6c13c19697e46e1429 builds before 354c8bbf8d1e4aa61e580dbe160591feda504e4f; from 965544150d1cadf0e8f5bb6c13c19697e46e1429 before c6cb77c474a32265e21c4871c7992468bf5e7638	CNA record
linux linux_kernel linux:linux_kernel	from 6.16.1 before 6.18.20; from 6.19 before 6.19.10; 6.16; 7.0; 7.0; 7.0; 7.0; 7.0; and 2 more ranges	NVD

References

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f300a41a3668095688aa4551214e8080829fa93	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/354c8bbf8d1e4aa61e580dbe160591feda504e4f	patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6cb77c474a32265e21c4871c7992468bf5e7638	patch

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