CVE record · CVE-2026-98163

cgroup: Avoid iteration of dying tasks with zero refcount

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0011 · 1st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 26 Sept 2026, 08:31 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 260fbcb92bbeacfcd050410fdc2d24ab15044400 to before 828938118d6c2bb711301748c3e39e4bed6a62f5 git
  • affected 260fbcb92bbeacfcd050410fdc2d24ab15044400 to before 057dac23d329d5c5ed62352f2659a39fd46c6d4a git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.19
  • unaffected before 6.19 semver
  • unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98163
CNA
Linux
Published
26 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 0.0011, the 1st 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 26 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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