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CVE record · CVE-2026-98261

cifs: Fix server use-after-free in cifs_chan_skip_or_disable()

CVSS 8.1 HighEPSS 0.0040 · 35th 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
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 50e8363ecc85da49764781da90ebffe1a657b370 to before 0338489960ddad6368bce55e8adbc176c523093d git
  • affected f591062bdbf4742b7f1622173017f19e927057b0 to before edd52eae5fcfb8433b6bb0e7cd98db438fe01227 git
  • affected f591062bdbf4742b7f1622173017f19e927057b0 to before fcc0a935bb6e37ecbf7e4335061309f896f35780 git
  • affected f591062bdbf4742b7f1622173017f19e927057b0 to before 7a1b27780b113583a94256d58dabfe7c0d9286e7 git
  • affected f591062bdbf4742b7f1622173017f19e927057b0 to before 717e0a25036b6c92cecace30913b2d874a4c22b8 git
  • affected d61ba1d71ea6039eca7ada870bf3f0c3c8fc12e4 git
  • affected 6.6.15 to before 6.6.158 semver
  • affected 6.7.3 to before 6.8 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.8
  • unaffected before 6.8 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-2026-98261
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.1 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0040, the 35th 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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