CVE record · CVE-2026-98116

ALSA: pcm: Serialize PCM mmap with buffer reallocation to fix page UAF

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0013 · 2nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:36 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 33061d0fba51d2bf70a2ef9645f703c33fe8e438 to before e6cdd2a0470d64073349a970dc1691433804b271 git affected 92ee3c60ec9fe64404dc035e7c41277d74aa26cb to before 9857a75714bb5df4781e4d8b1a1753b1e17bf07a git affected 92ee3c60ec9fe64404dc035e7c41277d74aa26cb to before cbadf2575d25e7dcc0d4da2717817ae569fbc99b git affected 92ee3c60ec9fe64404dc035e7c41277d74aa26cb to before cbc7ec97601d09b74e05e44470fa6b0bcdabf3f5 git affected 92ee3c60ec9fe64404dc035e7c41277d74aa26cb to before fd137bf8149bc6460f9b7b1fc292025da04cb9ee git affected 92ee3c60ec9fe64404dc035e7c41277d74aa26cb to before 8c1882dfee8f404d118020664b73eb4592172226 git affected 92ee3c60ec9fe64404dc035e7c41277d74aa26cb to before 9b110a9dcecc59516c77cb3c0caf1f492f75df2d git affected a42aa926843acca96c0dfbde2e835b8137f2f092 git affected 9cb6c40a6ebe4a0cfc9d6a181958211682cffea9 git affected fbeb492694ce0441053de57699e1e2b7bc148a69 git affected 0f6947f5f5208f6ebd4d76a82a4757e2839a23f8 git affected 0090c13cbbdffd7da079ac56f80373a9a1be0bf8 git and 8 more Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 5.18 unaffected before 5.18 semver unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15., inclusive semver unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1., inclusive semver unaffected 6.6.158 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-2026-98116
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 25 Sept 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
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 0.0013, the 2nd 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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