CVE-2026-23430 (GCVE-0-2026-23430)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-03 15:15 – Updated: 2026-04-13 06:07
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Title
drm/vmwgfx: Don't overwrite KMS surface dirty tracker
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/vmwgfx: Don't overwrite KMS surface dirty tracker We were overwriting the surface's dirty tracker here causing a memory leak.
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Linux Linux Affected: 965544150d1cadf0e8f5bb6c13c19697e46e1429 , < 3f300a41a3668095688aa4551214e8080829fa93 (git)
Affected: 965544150d1cadf0e8f5bb6c13c19697e46e1429 , < 354c8bbf8d1e4aa61e580dbe160591feda504e4f (git)
Affected: 965544150d1cadf0e8f5bb6c13c19697e46e1429 , < c6cb77c474a32265e21c4871c7992468bf5e7638 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 6.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.20 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.10 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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