CVE record · CVE-2026-98542

cgroup/cpuset: Return PERR_NOCPUS in remote_partition_enable() on subpartitions_cpus conflict

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0020 · 9th 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 86888c7bd117c29eab169c37e5f6bbbf583da983 to before 241e67b60308cdce25bba66616a109759edd1d40 git
  • affected 86888c7bd117c29eab169c37e5f6bbbf583da983 to before 0751ab665cb3dcdac224b002565f2e28461740d5 git
  • affected 86888c7bd117c29eab169c37e5f6bbbf583da983 to before 31c88350b7dd1522792f726f79607f31bb55c50f git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.16
  • unaffected before 6.16 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-2026-98542
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 7 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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