# ALSA: core: Fix potential UAF after asynchronous card release

CVE record · `CVE-2026-98266`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-98266`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 6 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 19 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

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: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 5c0df40aa577e405c458e44e8d458dd78407f4af` (git)
  - affected: `1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 2dec4642589a663e064e4411d92d6e8fa250d53b` (git)
  - affected: `1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 398b21608955c9712a012355b69a39407367edc9` (git)
  - affected: `1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before fd95e68df6fe66344161a1329cbe5e5805e7b704` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `2.6.12`
  - unaffected: `before 2.6.12` (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

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0017, the 6th 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

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-98266](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98266)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-98266](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98266)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c0df40aa577e405c458e44e8d458dd78407f4af>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dec4642589a663e064e4411d92d6e8fa250d53b>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/398b21608955c9712a012355b69a39407367edc9>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd95e68df6fe66344161a1329cbe5e5805e7b704>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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