CVE-2026-98778 affecting package kernel 6.6.157.1-1

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  "id": "7c6120ff38385a014b26294825c3e0d341f108abb36e9340c334bb5d47e68b76",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/AZL-109454",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2026-98778 affecting package kernel 6.6.157.1-1",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: binder: fix is_failure flag for superseded transaction cleanup When a TF_UPDATE_TXN transaction supersedes a pending async transaction, binder_release_entire_buffer() is called with is_failure=false. Since the superseded transaction was never delivered, binder_apply_fd_fixups() was never called and no fds were installed in the target process.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.",
    "evidence": "osv:AZL-109454",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "kernel",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "unknown",
    "structured": {
      "id": "AZL-109454",
      "aliases": [
        "AZL-109454"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "6.6.157.1-1"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "kernel",
            "purl": "pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel",
            "ecosystem": "Azure Linux:3"
          },
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-109454.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-27T05:36:16Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2026-98778"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98778"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-98778",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": null
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 460466,
  "published_at": "2026-10-18T16:17:31+00:00"
}