CVE record · CVE-2026-98040

bpf: Mark the zero register precise for a register-form NULL check

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0020 · 10th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:23 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 2f4cb53eed448c1aeb6f4b40cf9c810716d8218c to before ddca9a3b8833168dda3e62676648a636fb3f221c git
  • affected 2f4cb53eed448c1aeb6f4b40cf9c810716d8218c to before 6aed0134d3cda6382385a734ae0158eb7df6b142 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 7.1
  • unaffected before 7.1 semver
  • unaffected 7.2.7 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98040
CNA
Linux
Published
25 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 0.0020, the 10th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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