{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98781 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98781 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 18 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-98781 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98781 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 18 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98781 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98781/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98781/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98781","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98781/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98781","record":{"aliases":["AZL-110465","BELL-CVE-2026-98781","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98781","GHSA-3r3h-q9jp-47gf","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98781"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A reference leak in the Mediatek DRM driver can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/mediatek: Fix pdev reference leak in mtk_drm_bind()\n\nWhen the device is not the mmsys master, mtk_drm_bind() returns early\nafter taking a reference on the disp-mutex device via\nof_find_device_by_node(), without ever dropping it: mtk_drm_unbind()\nonly puts mutex_dev for the master. Drop the reference before returning\nfrom the non-master path.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"drm/mediatek: Fix pdev reference leak in mtk_drm_bind()","id":"CVE-2026-98781","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"drm/mediatek: Fix ovl adaptor platform device leak","id":"CVE-2026-98782"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"drm/amdgpu: fix IP instance memory leak on kobject add failure","id":"CVE-2026-98780"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-10-18","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-21","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A reference leak in the Mediatek DRM driver can lead to resource exhaustion and denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98781/"}