CVE-2026-98856 — 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: 2026-10-18T16:17:40.050
• Last modified: 2026-10-19T10:19:49.677

09References

• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/526fac219e8b7d3369b43026bd0a1df51b811cd4
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6745fa65f4115045431c0c15610e876855a04625
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7a39c732a22ec4a369af9e19fbe3d666ec83eec4
• git.kernel.org — https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/985a568171e7bdba6dcde3420d0e5bb515813457