CVE record · CVE-2026-98451

smb: client: use finish_no_open() for non-regular inodes

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0040 · 34th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:15 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 d2c127197dfc0b2bae62a52e1e0d3e3ff493919e to before bc585d5a381ab49cb611c35dda93a997214ca874 git affected d2c127197dfc0b2bae62a52e1e0d3e3ff493919e to before 26f4bca335e719e291995e28dc434de0145a6a54 git affected d2c127197dfc0b2bae62a52e1e0d3e3ff493919e to before 51c7b0593f6eaba05349fd2a01a9cb4df7d7412f git affected d2c127197dfc0b2bae62a52e1e0d3e3ff493919e to before 045532f920d86dd76600b635f9756e5fd671ddfc git affected d2c127197dfc0b2bae62a52e1e0d3e3ff493919e to before ed03d547598c92a036f20e89156540995cac889a git affected d2c127197dfc0b2bae62a52e1e0d3e3ff493919e to before 70a7918fda54a06d836acc91eb9a3c7e860fe0a0 git affected d2c127197dfc0b2bae62a52e1e0d3e3ff493919e to before 3c07deb26273155c180aedfd9041ab58015d2521 git affected d2c127197dfc0b2bae62a52e1e0d3e3ff493919e to before e66cf1625ec4a3fe68346119f371def713fd0a4d git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 3.6 unaffected before 3.6 semver unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10., inclusive semver unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15., inclusive semver unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1., inclusive semver unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6., inclusive semver unaffected 6.12.113 to 6.12., inclusive semver unaffected 6.18.56 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.9 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to , inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-98451
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 18 Oct 2026
Updated: 30 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0040, the 34th percentile, on 8 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 18 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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