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CVE record · CVE-2026-97941

mm/slab: take n->list_lock in __slab_try_return_freelist() to avoid race

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0017 · 6th 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 ba742531260782a2646bc031f9a12cafebc22594 to before 570a6aaf6b52c6ec098f4811cdb52b1496f13d15 git
  • affected ba742531260782a2646bc031f9a12cafebc22594 to before 4a724bcf5d703e18957397914d79156fa2cf1174 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 7.2
  • unaffected before 7.2 semver
  • unaffected 7.2.7 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-97941
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0017, the 6th 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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