CVE-2026-98794 — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

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

01What is this vulnerability?

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

02Affected products

No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2026-10-18T16:17:33.390
• Last modified: 2026-10-19T10:19:43.427

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45a93111835ccfea7d969ec73588e33745fd9834
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55d033324f67a15ff56be6d38d6e87f644e0ed62
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4cd1db7d421e82945713a36084bb0c35b75b27e
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f96e91748f6304668fe647e686d199d7207d36f1