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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97604" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:16.613Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:10:08.190Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97604" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97604.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97604" title: "fbdev: vfb: defer cleanup until the last reference" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfbdev: vfb: defer cleanup until the last reference\n\nFBIOGETCMAP takes a shallow snapshot of info-\u003ecmap and performs the\nusercopy after dropping info-\u003elock. vfb_remove() frees the colormap\nimmediately after unregistering the framebuffer, even when an open file\nstill holds a reference to fb_info. A concurrent driver unbind can\ntherefore free the colormap while the ioctl copies it to userspace.\n\nKASAN reports:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in _copy_to_user\n Read of size 512 by task poc/125\n\n _copy_to_user (./include/linux/instrumented.h:129 ./include/linux/uaccess.h:201 lib/usercopy.c:24)\n fb_cmap_to_user (./include/linux/uaccess.h:230 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c:211)\n do_fb_ioctl (drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_chrdev.c:114)\n\n Allocated by task 1:\n fb_alloc_cmap_gfp (./include/linux/slab.h:973 ./include/linux/slab.h:1290 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c:108)\n vfb_probe (drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c:459)\n\n Freed by task 124:\n fb_dealloc_cmap (drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcmap.c:151)\n vfb_remove (drivers/video/fbdev/vfb.c:489)\n\nunregister_framebuffer() drops the registration reference, and fbdev calls\nfb_destroy after the last put_fb_info(). Move the registered framebuffer's\ncleanup into an fb_destroy callback so its colormap and screen buffer stay\nalive until all file references have been released." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5e266e2e0e19532c1b8e2e2bff1eb6ccf42e478a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf49eac7ed11aabd0b9b790c062742a8e4be97c6"},{"version":"5e266e2e0e19532c1b8e2e2bff1eb6ccf42e478a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"040ce3950f64a11e9ee5646c8aaa91fd2e29e245"},{"version":"5e266e2e0e19532c1b8e2e2bff1eb6ccf42e478a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab664e279eb2a68e55895dd115a9488807280f07"},{"version":"5e266e2e0e19532c1b8e2e2bff1eb6ccf42e478a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de5a0eda59fe4b3eacd1a67c992e54766bb6683f"},{"version":"5e266e2e0e19532c1b8e2e2bff1eb6ccf42e478a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"86356f13598f59f5acb1754895747dcdaf65a254"},{"version":"5e266e2e0e19532c1b8e2e2bff1eb6ccf42e478a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ff1effb047e465cde193d7df95988aa1520035e"},{"version":"5e266e2e0e19532c1b8e2e2bff1eb6ccf42e478a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c91e51a53cf805e551e5dc8149cd0539a6dbb9d"},{"version":"5e266e2e0e19532c1b8e2e2bff1eb6ccf42e478a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a0a34a40ed299c9c7cff6af163a5b883ee9d6d73"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.30","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.30"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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