CVE record · CVE-2026-98869

bpf: Infer zext_dst based on static register liveness analysis

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 21 Oct 2026, 14:55 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 107e169799057bc6a379ddb625cbe1e51cfc7d72 to before 7ce090afbf725e25fff29caacce1eaf8459b1117 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.18 unaffected before 6.18 semver unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-98869
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 21 Oct 2026
Updated: 24 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 5th percentile, on 8 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 21 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ce090afbf725e25fff29caacce1eaf8459b1117

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