CVE-2026-98838 — 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: 2026-10-18T16:17:38.060
• Last modified: 2026-10-19T10:19:47.853

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0928ed9bd7946baee911efa401088697836e3b1e
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ee53081425a1a31ce15089012cd96b8353eb44e
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/985c000b046ca4ee11ee34ef85db500c569ef6e8
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad06f7312d3f615dd466483ce81a9b9619166686