CVE record · CVE-2026-98655

perf: Require kernel access for text poke events

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0019 · 8th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:44 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 e17d43b93e544f5016c0251d2074c15568d5d963 to before 4d8fc6290d14aa9e4c3b620fe3e5dc8ba3bea7e3 git
  • affected e17d43b93e544f5016c0251d2074c15568d5d963 to before c30886396eb1c0e9fdc4296398dea0db0ab37610 git
  • affected e17d43b93e544f5016c0251d2074c15568d5d963 to before 0e26d44b7c64b045adebcf5d614140f811f09752 git
  • affected e17d43b93e544f5016c0251d2074c15568d5d963 to before 8c38cb055f6a9651198780e4e4d5283de4039f79 git
  • affected e17d43b93e544f5016c0251d2074c15568d5d963 to before 8473f44db9f710ea6f8cafb22f2e3ba6cb8ca9a7 git
  • affected e17d43b93e544f5016c0251d2074c15568d5d963 to before e506333d1b9f42f1e402acebf1283af3c44a3809 git
  • affected e17d43b93e544f5016c0251d2074c15568d5d963 to before 677d0b51ac1a0db55d768c4c6399210b3de0795b git
  • affected e17d43b93e544f5016c0251d2074c15568d5d963 to before 357e8a77a501d96c9517f01f4a211eed5e9c9184 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.9
  • unaffected before 5.9 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.113 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.56 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.10 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98655
CNA
Linux
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
30 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 0.0019, the 8th 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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