CVE record · CVE-2026-98740

EDAC/altera: Drop __init from ECC setup paths for re-probe safety

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:47 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 788586efd116d6d7d05985881eda503333e702b4 to before 9846b85c2eb8b749c3f14bdcc31b1070f6aabba8 git affected 788586efd116d6d7d05985881eda503333e702b4 to before 4ec26cb7984740941892ad21fa974963c198bfaa git affected 788586efd116d6d7d05985881eda503333e702b4 to before b62a264163ca51bee04785c581344751812395df git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 5.2 unaffected before 5.2 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-2026-98740
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 18 Oct 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0018, the 7th 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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