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CVE record · CVE-2026-98537

workqueue: Fix NULL current_pwq deref in flush dependency check

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0022 · 12th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:18 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 fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262 to before 8ffececcb88262389b4f91fed0fe4884b68204bc git
  • affected fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262 to before 9bb739a5c5a570c28a62afb98e9326e2a49743c1 git
  • affected fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262 to before cc190a6a1d20b87e6a9435202fc2a3bd84c79fb3 git
  • affected fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262 to before 513121e69388604619ea8c0ee07e86a3d1b5b5dc git
  • affected fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262 to before 0c6b9b1e295aeff1132ac7aa738148cc65f06485 git
  • affected fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262 to before 1dccf5dc2f8fe688270b261ca4216e03c6a1e674 git
  • affected fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262 to before f97e6d0572d1b39998e053732332bc3cfdd0b9aa git
  • affected fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262 to before db6365ced4d5855e321f772b240c0e473bcfcdd5 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.5
  • unaffected before 4.5 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 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-2026-98537
CNA
Linux
Tags
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 0.0022, the 12th 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

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.