CVE record · CVE-2026-98217

IB/mlx4: Fix use-after-free on pkey sysfs registration failure

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th 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 c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to before 791471421d848ce13e84f4b21c9e19973d471c4e git
  • affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to before 734f066933484f6c7cedea0312763249beed5845 git
  • affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to before a07bee32127d7c4cd3b1bb9a088e21d0c93634c9 git
  • affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to before cf20d7476754c00eec04ae23d3e929de33ce0345 git
  • affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to before 0c3482e965b18bc242e54e899d1c4d391ca8e5e3 git
  • affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to before ffb80872617b5f9b3dd1536ec2909029fa66f228 git
  • affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to before ced1186fea7c77e16681c7ef4802897885989c3b git
  • affected c1e7e466120b80ce49e91af0c9da1ce6dee4844a to before 1af874e9f4ce22ccf8b10ab5462f32c70d3be21a git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 3.7
  • unaffected before 3.7 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive 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 6.12.112 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-2026-98217
CNA
Linux
Published
6 Oct 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 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 10 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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