CVE-2026-98783: drm/mediatek: Add missing IS_ERR check for ovl_adaptor platform device
Published Oct 18, 2026
·Updated
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/mediatek: Add missing ISERR check for ovladaptor platform device
platformdeviceregisterdata() can fail and return an ERRPTR, but the return value is used without checking, leading to an invalid pointer being stored in ddpcomp[].dev and passed to componentmatchadd() and mtkddpcompinit(), which could result in a kernel crash.
Add an ISERR() check to jump to the error handling path on failure.
Affected Software
1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
- Compensating control
Add an IS_ERR() check for the return value of platform_device_register_data() before storing it in ddp_comp[].dev or passing it to component_match_add(), and jump to the error-handling path when it indicates failure.
Event History
Oct 18, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·03:48 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·03:48 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·04:17 PM
Description