CVE-2026-98846 — 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: 2026-10-18T16:17:38.947
• Last modified: 2026-10-19T10:19:48.700

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/222c41e0f50f1d5028be9baf0e1dcfc0bfa7f669
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f1da630d13de0370e2f6361f961f1c8b384af1c
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e701345d886e831fb593a0870d69c8c5de6fc938
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8f972b1759d26bbefe4c524caae1ed7c8a593bd