CVE record · CVE-2026-98790

perf: Fix race between perf_event_exit_task() and perf_pending_task()

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:48 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 97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0 to before 6e454fbe3e646d119ab75e907035950e0e857c09 git
  • affected 97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0 to before a8a6fe5601fa2d2c0fbfb3e531a1063f73c1eae3 git
  • affected 97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0 to before 655acfa713bce9ae9c81a654459890c2f58cb4e8 git
  • affected 97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0 to before 672b8a9ce8f51b991481dfde26fba5cc4340a91a git
  • affected 97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0 to before 524063fea29f8a841e49927ea7a8085194ad3ec2 git
  • affected 97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0 to before 81e61e3f8befa1bae3ec8e779d8ada5e5e362c21 git
  • affected 97ba62b278674293762c3d91f724f1bb922f04e0 to before ffb684f2aa141eeb0caa6308422e7e05d1ded7c4 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.13
  • unaffected before 5.13 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-2026-98790
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 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 6 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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