CVE record · CVE-2026-98284

netlink: do not free nlk->groups while lockless readers can use it

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0015 · 4th 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 21e4902aea80ef35afc00ee8d2abdea4f519b7f7 to before 22f313e211d58a66786c81487c3905fa5d4b2a8f git
  • affected 21e4902aea80ef35afc00ee8d2abdea4f519b7f7 to before ceac0de741bfb47ca255eee075257b3bb31f0651 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.0
  • unaffected before 4.0 semver
  • unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98284
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 0.0015, the 4th 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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