CVE record · CVE-2026-98539

fs/ntfs3: use d_instantiate_new() in ntfs_create_inode() and murder syzbot's "WARNING in do_new_mount" saga

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 11th 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 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 to before 6fda7121cb6a8ea6fbd77d0f787f04b8e8b5358e git
  • affected 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 to before 37ec7353f4ac495b28284b0fcb0e53d21d1b3f3f git
  • affected 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 to before 1ae2a242c15b03470b1b16289298e597bbe3bb29 git
  • affected 82cae269cfa953032fbb8980a7d554d60fb00b17 to before 1abd643f3783ea8f8e273c18697ff0413aa92dc7 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.15
  • unaffected before 5.15 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-2026-98539
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 0.0021, the 11th 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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