CVE-2026-98848 — 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: 2026-10-18T16:17:39.163
• Last modified: 2026-10-19T10:19:48.890

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/160619b38707241e22569f9c983a4b3d0890996a
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a4117eee82dd85f11bf898bf66026764011eeb6
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bb55381daf1a1bed0657189a1396e7467712525
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad1bf77039cba83373bf1eff3784655e3e3ed2ab