# netfs: Fix missing alloc tagging of direct mempool allocations

CVE record · `CVE-2026-98920`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-98920`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** No CVSS score
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** Linux
- **Technologies:** [Linux kernel](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/linux-kernel.md)
- **Published:** 23 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 23 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 12:02 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: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `15ed8a9b7c63e9171f5139a6aaa1ffb61809861f to before 5c03da745171485fd181f17b69213464f6d05f3d` (git)
  - affected: `1d78d56c43ef3768183e8370e7367b162700e049 to before 37a2042748bc880df03ff8315db86ed82991fbb8` (git)
  - affected: `1d78d56c43ef3768183e8370e7367b162700e049 to before b78b728e21c32ec4c330b299f657fb1eb02dffc2` (git)
  - affected: `b343252d6f536203dd0660f676190dcbf6d2ecdc` (git)
  - affected: `3f6d7f8a5416d852648d15a05e895f1195ee8a85` (git)
  - affected: `6.12.114 to before 6.13` (semver)
  - affected: `7.1.8 to before 7.2` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `7.2`
  - unaffected: `before 7.2` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.2.9 to 7.2.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.3 to *, inclusive` (original_commit_for_fix)
  - Other versions: affected

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

- **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

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 23 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-98920](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98920)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-98920](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98920)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c03da745171485fd181f17b69213464f6d05f3d>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/37a2042748bc880df03ff8315db86ed82991fbb8>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b78b728e21c32ec4c330b299f657fb1eb02dffc2>

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