CVE record · CVE-2026-98642

bpf: Fix UAF due to concurrent consumption of ttrace lists in alloc_bulk

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:20 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 04fabf00b4d3aff5d010ecb617001814e409e24a to before a0e150a118025a05c8662c536ba2a865da86419c git
  • affected 04fabf00b4d3aff5d010ecb617001814e409e24a to before 1d6581b544a88cf4348c2fb60dcb50ad63f012da git
  • affected 04fabf00b4d3aff5d010ecb617001814e409e24a to before f101602415fb39a58941bec444df65634d5a6844 git
  • affected 04fabf00b4d3aff5d010ecb617001814e409e24a to before 1c21452d02eec2f008e2c5535820f85adbd7587a git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.6
  • unaffected before 6.6 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-2026-98642
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 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 6 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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