# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98949"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:08.946Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:08.946Z"
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-2026-98949"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98949.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98949"
title: "drm/imagination: Fix reference and vm_bo handling in remap()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/imagination: Fix reference and vm_bo handling in remap()\n\nWhen a map overlaps part of an existing mapping, pvr_vm_gpuva_remap()\nsplits the mapping into prev/next parts covering what the request did\nnot take, instead of creating something new. It gets two things wrong.\n\n- A GEM reference is taken for each part but it's never needed and never\n  dropped, so it leaks one reference per split (remap-next-in-2m in\n  tests/imagination/pvr_vm_map.c):\n\n    CRITICAL: 33558528 bytes of shmem still held after close\n\n- The parts still belong to the original object being split, but\n  pvr_vm_gpuva_remap() links them to ctx-\u003egpuvm_bo, the new object's\n  vm_bo:\n\n    prev_va --obj--\u003e BO_A          BO_B \u003c--obj-- vm_bo (ctx-\u003egpuvm_bo)\n            \\___________link___________/  (mismatch: BO_A != BO_B)\n\n  drm_gpuva_link() catches the mismatch:\n\n    WARNING: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_gpuvm.c:2108 at drm_gpuva_link+0x2ec/0x310\n      drm_WARN_ON(obj != vm_bo-\u003eobj)\n    Call trace:\n     drm_gpuva_link\n     pvr_vm_gpuva_remap\n     __drm_gpuvm_sm_map\n     pvr_vm_map\n     pvr_ioctl_vm_map\n\n  Link them to op-\u003eremap.unmap-\u003eva-\u003evm_bo instead.\n\nThe locking of the GPUVA lists of the other objects touched by a split is\nnot addressed here; it is handled by switching the GPUVM to immediate\nmode."
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