CVE record · CVE-2026-98477

perf/core: Fix NULL pmu_ctx passed to pmu->sched_task()

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th 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
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b to before 98181f9721f75f1a544dc563b0d8fed1d5c398d5 git
  • affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b to before b5409311b606d536cc485f3706c242c2afa93edb git
  • affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b to before 249a2bd87a0e57dc28f36e992807edc9cae309b5 git
  • affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b to before ec15f6a50183fc01f470af74ad49900fb3731fca git
  • affected bd27568117664b8b3e259721393df420ed51f57b to before 36bb85cf36cab15fb611cb44b78a5df06e4e69a2 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.2
  • unaffected before 6.2 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.55 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-2026-98477
CNA
Linux
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
21 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 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 8 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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