CVE record · CVE-2026-98939

x86/mm: Drop unnecessary PMD page copy when freeing

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 12:12 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 e21a9ea81426a85fdb0cdcfcc99d5d9c16b402ab to before d3c2d2692bdf4af94bb27bc7a3aa0a348a567606 git
  • affected cc73b2043d106b467accd38e9b1fc09e0607c056 to before f38c57a28ebbd057471573e39555d5aa11ab03cf git
  • affected d5d8b8662e6e5a565b47a0388640e88402f23274 to before e3ee38c1bc0b11a8d3e63dce7050759b61864286 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.18.53 to before 6.18.56 semver
  • affected 7.2.7 to before 7.2.10 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98939
CNA
Linux
Published
23 Oct 2026
Updated
23 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 0.0017, the 5th percentile, on 7 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

References from the CNA

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