CVE record · CVE-2026-97938

reboot: fix cad_pid use-after-free race

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 10th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:22 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 9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 to before 0c1a966bc047af2801a70b8eb13f9df5d7ab925f git
  • affected 9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 to before ae3e53fe3c1241855e3a88f74877738349948c78 git
  • affected 9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 to before ad72e2566643fff7f01666d845fb026898155e1f git
  • affected 9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 to before 9a17b0e053197a6a42cdc75e75a35b17aa662088 git
  • affected 9ec52099e4b8678a60e9f93e41ad87885d64f3e6 to before 5a88f78df753993469dab4d1831f8fb4256a9468 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.19
  • unaffected before 2.6.19 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.7 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-97938
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
21 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 0.0021, the 10th percentile, on 12 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 25 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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