CVE record · CVE-2026-98281

futex: Also allocate private hash on vfork()

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0013 · 2nd 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 1dcd36420af2da5bd59306dba9caf78e3d248b1d to before 5468a4855b63b30156a79e5248e01bf1a2c18dd7 git
  • affected ee9dce44362b2d8132c32964656ab6dff7dfbc6a to before eecbafa8cabbc4d1482f6a5e2acc25a8f934681b git
  • affected ee9dce44362b2d8132c32964656ab6dff7dfbc6a to before b61b6f95d6722ddbbbd09e689fa41b55fd36f9a5 git
  • affected 974ac49a9a068b0591a59f65c63eb06579a13091 git
  • affected 6.18.33 to before 6.18.54 semver
  • affected 7.0.10 to before 7.1 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 7.1
  • unaffected before 7.1 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-2026-98281
CNA
Linux
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0013, the 2nd 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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