CVE record · CVE-2026-98929

macsec: initialize SecY before registering the netdevice

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 12:08 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 c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 to before 2b42adf3b8ee9a0e1d2629aca3c5a02a1c438066 git affected c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 to before b07bea42bf590edb0fd507ab25622a74af09548b git affected c09440f7dcb304002dfced8c0fea289eb25f2da0 to before c2de369c5c5b8599ca10fd5ca8d11fcd845c1331 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 4.6 unaffected before 4.6 semver unaffected 6.18.55 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.9 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-98929
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 23 Oct 2026
Updated: 23 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 5th percentile, on 7 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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