CVE record · CVE-2026-98041

bpf: Don't predict JMP32 pointer vs zero comparisons

CVSS 7.0 HighEPSS 0.0015 · 4th 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 cac616db39c207dc63465a4e05c6ce0e60b2cce4 to before 6e1544986536734166176c3add504add23bcbd15 git
  • affected cac616db39c207dc63465a4e05c6ce0e60b2cce4 to before d16f0eafcaa62e677a2b5b0dabc1f8d31dfe3d4d git
  • affected cac616db39c207dc63465a4e05c6ce0e60b2cce4 to before e2ae33247e8b2dbe9d116d3e61cadf6d548339c6 git
  • affected cac616db39c207dc63465a4e05c6ce0e60b2cce4 to before a4d7f94c1ca914469ced665ec2f98be669aef462 git
  • affected cac616db39c207dc63465a4e05c6ce0e60b2cce4 to before e51179a4e09846f8fd0f26a05068520de2b301bf git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.8
  • unaffected before 5.8 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.111 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-2026-98041
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
21 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.0 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0015, the 4th 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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