CVE record · CVE-2026-98174

smb: client: fix rlist race and missing initialization

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0033 · 26th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:44 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 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before b5f924ffbfa976e4b97f17e8132c595b97482c2d git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 5a8f82f9c5839389cf4036029dd75a9911049e83 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 04082b1833856cb9ed87e0d3d5f04cbf836cf7da git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before c037d6bde3dd5fa00b017b6b98a5389ec0ebc02f git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 5f270f091256da1338c3631083e15d7f83cc05e1 git
  • affected before 6.6.158 semver
  • affected before 6.12.112 semver
  • affected before 6.18.54 semver
  • affected before 7.2.8 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.54 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98174
CNA
Linux
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0033, the 26th 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 6 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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