CVE record · CVE-2026-98839

vt: selection: Fix unsigned underflow and slab-out-of-bounds read in paste_selection()

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:50 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 e8c75a30a23c6ba63f4ef6895cbf41fd42f21aa2 to before 037d7e3ca5c593092f4b0d471eb869a85cbddde0 git affected e8c75a30a23c6ba63f4ef6895cbf41fd42f21aa2 to before 619c6d7dd76fff15a9714fbf02ce299b737f01a2 git affected e8c75a30a23c6ba63f4ef6895cbf41fd42f21aa2 to before 39495ef5d6f8019e62d65807f217a7ca8232727a git affected 54c522782fd11a720f959ee9cb5a15bb9580343d git affected 05c508edc9d0b44e4706d3c2cf14ee12aac210d2 git affected e5be0e24ffc7f5783a3864b5b958088ed15be9e8 git affected a4719f6d07b2c63223f7452c435c5f578f105cfe git affected b4492f1e7456bd162714c0ec2815c2749d930844 git affected 9a9c13ad21a8220cb70c9807a920f43520515f94 git affected 8c368d36878e2fc99285279fc5e14b3d3cb8947c git affected 3.16.83 to before 3.17 semver affected 4.4.216 to before 4.5 semver and 5 more Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 5.6 unaffected before 5.6 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-2026-98839
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 0.0017, the 5th 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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