# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98926"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:05:54.511Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:05:54.511Z"
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-2026-98926"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98926.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98926"
title: "drm/amd/display: Remove sink usage from DPMS"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/amd/display: Remove sink usage from DPMS\n\n[Why]\nstream-\u003esink is optional and can be null, so should always be checked\nbefore dereference. Additionally, most of its usage in DPMS sequences\nis for stream-\u003esink-\u003elink, which can be replaced with stream-\u003elink,\nas the two should always be the same.\n\n[How]\n* Replace stream-\u003esink-\u003elink in DPMS on/off\n* Add assert to USB4 BW allocation where sink is required\n* Avoid inconsistencies in resource access, e.g. don't repeat\nstream-\u003elink after it was already saved to a local variable\n* Pull out effective VPG calculation to helper getter\n* Formatting fixes"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b1eebd359685dd681f6e0df5540a5bb985a27bf"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8fa813b7fd1eccbed13e126166cf764f1f11a7d3"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.2.9"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.2.9","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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