CVE-2026-93059

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm: Fix task_struct reference leak in recover_worker get_pid_task() increments the task reference count, but the corresponding put_task_struct() was missing in the else branch, leaking a reference on every GPU hang recovery. Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/730662/

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d684f756d029d81db1cd64cd9645556e53fcc784

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c472fde2c8096e16bb46b0605adda2488f300c0

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40b793714ad8f393ab3d469f9d00b20ebda46257

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00198