CVE record · CVE-2026-89726

lib/ucs2_string.c: fix out-of-bounds read in ucs2_strnlen()

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 11 Sept 2026, 19:46 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 04ae68af4107600120c3c41c94268f43bc350d48 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 2e5a70a175f0c74e7238b013a96c4eabc3002934 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 3ada20e110bf3245edb0a3bcddadc33d0f142f8d git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 60c74f42f5abddb85dd919b4448d5474e65dbe76 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 709eb41adaf78d59d4579a13a898125919b69bcc git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 7d658da725ea81c91f73087547b97e7ced82d62b git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 1b0dc3cbb8630f0b5cb34d848628225920a904be git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before cec0d03fe785380540dc1b4d07c80f67ae2ffc78 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.12
  • unaffected before 2.6.12 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.270 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.221 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.188 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.157 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.109 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.50 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.4 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-89726
CNA
Linux
Published
11 Sept 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 11 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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