CVE record · CVE-2026-98506

mm/hugetlb: do not dissolve gigantic pages without runtime support

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0020 · 9th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:17 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 6eb4e88a6d27022ea8aff424d47a0a5dfc9fcb34 to before ddc1055b557506a6ea8930dfbd8d1555d6a3f01e git
  • affected 6eb4e88a6d27022ea8aff424d47a0a5dfc9fcb34 to before ccf96a4b8626a001c13c5836d8357f31c57bbd8e git
  • affected 6eb4e88a6d27022ea8aff424d47a0a5dfc9fcb34 to before 443628f755b35bf45044f68b970b65cd531c42fd git
  • affected 6eb4e88a6d27022ea8aff424d47a0a5dfc9fcb34 to before a363c62a653cc8b3e21da9545fa4e028ef50f9c3 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.13
  • unaffected before 5.13 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-2026-98506
CNA
Linux
Published
18 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 0.0020, the 9th 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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