CVE-2026-46215

/// Technical description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm: Set old handle to NULL before prime swap in change_handle

There was a potential race condition in change_handle. The ioctl

briefly had a single object with two idr entries; a concurrent

gem_close could delete the object and remove one of the handles

while leaving the other one dangling, which could subsequently

be dereferenced for a use-after-free.

To fix this, do the same dance that gem_close itself does.

(f6cd7daecff5 drm: Release driver references to handle before making it available again)

First idr_replace the old handle to NULL. Later, if the prime

operations are successful, actually close it.

create_tail required a similar dance to avoid a similar problem.

(bd46cece51a3 drm/gem: Fix race in drm_gem_handle_create_tail())

It idr_allocs the new handle with NULL, then swaps in the correct

object later to avoid races. We don't need to do that here, since

the only operations that could race are drm_prime, and

/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

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