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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98783"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:48:20.377Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:56:57.231Z"
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-2026-98783"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98783.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98783"
title: "drm/mediatek: Add missing IS_ERR check for ovl_adaptor platform device"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/mediatek: Add missing IS_ERR check for ovl_adaptor platform device\n\nplatform_device_register_data() can fail and return an ERR_PTR, but the\nreturn value is used without checking, leading to an invalid pointer\nbeing stored in ddp_comp[].dev and passed to component_match_add() and\nmtk_ddp_comp_init(), which could result in a kernel crash.\n\nAdd an IS_ERR() check to jump to the error handling path on failure."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0d9eee9118b77e51eeafc5bf4d008fac97035d56","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f0ffb09cf1bf2a0f301f51fb45371c09dc78fcd0"},{"version":"0d9eee9118b77e51eeafc5bf4d008fac97035d56","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4acac370aad2d4895a82f40b2f03e9ef70eecaa6"},{"version":"0d9eee9118b77e51eeafc5bf4d008fac97035d56","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"88f8a92dcb0cb154774595dee7226458de4cbd38"},{"version":"0d9eee9118b77e51eeafc5bf4d008fac97035d56","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aeef8a8537bcfb26689edb36ed905b8b2873001c"},{"version":"0d9eee9118b77e51eeafc5bf4d008fac97035d56","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bce7698e2e6565bb765bd0522337f29f5f312624"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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