# 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-2026-99007"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:32.381Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:32.381Z"
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-2026-99007"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-99007.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99007"
title: "drm/fb-helper: defer setup when fbdev_probe() fails, not just on -EAGAIN"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/fb-helper: defer setup when fbdev_probe() fails, not just on -EAGAIN\n\n__drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock() calls\ndrm_client_modeset_probe() first, which already fills in each\nmode_set-\u003emode/num_connectors for every connected output, and only\nafterwards calls drm_fb_helper_single_fb_probe() to create\nfb_helper-\u003efb and wire it into those mode_sets via\ndrm_setup_crtcs_fb().\n\nIf drm_fb_helper_single_fb_probe() fails with anything other than\n-EAGAIN (e.g. dev-\u003edriver-\u003efbdev_probe() itself fails), the function\nbails out before drm_setup_crtcs_fb() runs and before setting\nfb_helper-\u003edeferred_setup. The client is left with mode_sets that\nhave a mode and connectors but mode_set-\u003efb == NULL, and nothing\nmarks this fb_helper as needing a retry.\n\n__drm_fb_helper_restore_fbdev_mode_unlocked() only skips committing\nwhen fb_helper-\u003edeferred_setup is set, so a later .restore() call\n(drm_lastclose() on process exit, in this report) commits the stale\nmode_set through drm_client_modeset_commit() -\u003e\ndrm_client_modeset_commit_atomic() -\u003e __drm_atomic_helper_set_config(),\nwhich hits WARN_ON(!set-\u003efb).\n\nMark fb_helper-\u003edeferred_setup on any drm_fb_helper_single_fb_probe()\nfailure, not just -EAGAIN, so restore keeps skipping the commit until\na later hotplug event successfully re-probes and re-populates\nmode_set-\u003efb. The real error code is still returned to the caller\nunchanged."
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