CVE record · CVE-2026-97950

configfs: pin the symlink target's dirent instead of chasing ->ci_dentry

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 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before a44744454eafbc158e8c8e3ef8d207076410b195 git
  • affected 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before 846ff40fd57a47e59a41f4e331ec3b34efaddc23 git
  • affected 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before 4f54beb2e7f6d399396466682fba3539bcdcb414 git
  • affected 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before d47c5de1cd6bfbe1067fc310bf90e4e00205e839 git
  • affected 7063fbf2261194f72ee75afca67b3b38b554b5fa to before a7c1290eef60711c10289c056ad32ed1f2b47b12 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.16
  • unaffected before 2.6.16 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-2026-97950
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 11 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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