CVE-2026-98623

Updated on 18 Oct 2026

Severity

6.1 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
6.1

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/nouveau/clk: fix list cursor use after loop in nvkm_clk_ustate_update

If list_for_each_entry() exits without hitting a break then “pstate” is not a valid pstate pointer. Introduce a “found” variable instead.

The check is reachable from userspace: nvkm_clk_ustate_update() takes the pstate id straight from the ‘pstate’ debugfs file, so requesting an id that is not in clk->states - or any id at all when the perf tables are broken and the list is empty - makes the pstate->pstate != req test dereference the list head cast to a struct nvkm_pstate, which is an out-of-bounds read.

[Francesco: rebased on drm-misc-next, expanded the commit message]

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KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU Planned —
AlmaLinux 9.6 ESU Planned —
Oracle Linux 8 UEK 7 Planned —
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 AWS Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 Azure Planned —
Ubuntu 26.04 Planned —