CVE record · CVE-2026-98259

fs/dax: check zero or empty entry before converting xarray entry

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:45 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 38607c62b34b46317c46d5baf1df03ac6e48a1c6 to before 44ab7420ab52ab6c04bf225cac7c5c007cedd6c7 git affected 38607c62b34b46317c46d5baf1df03ac6e48a1c6 to before 185cd2f5fe1e3319853cf065905b2885ad0bcbf8 git affected 38607c62b34b46317c46d5baf1df03ac6e48a1c6 to before 8e2b8614039853e68d5338e37821e8bcee9fc05f git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.15 unaffected before 6.15 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-2026-98259
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 6 Oct 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 5th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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