# gpio: exar: initialize the ID before registering its cleanup

CVE record · `CVE-2026-98971`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-98971`
- **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:** 30 Oct 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 12:19 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: `5300ebb695fa0672589ab191062392f686fca75d to before 0250acba81654b2ee50bde324ad72b3f0c04d0bd` (git)
  - affected: `5300ebb695fa0672589ab191062392f686fca75d to before 88b9c4bbf83d940ab672956e5af921215905dcb4` (git)
  - affected: `5300ebb695fa0672589ab191062392f686fca75d to before bf3d841ef12fcbec4458e2750956b738b043a226` (git)
  - affected: `5300ebb695fa0672589ab191062392f686fca75d to before b78c114600ae3df90c083c72c290437b068577c8` (git)
  - affected: `5300ebb695fa0672589ab191062392f686fca75d to before 01318927a9055136c207399eeb36ce07becac179` (git)
  - affected: `5300ebb695fa0672589ab191062392f686fca75d to before f7ec4dbd2a073dd53b6349be1c586fe8580dd6b2` (git)
  - affected: `5300ebb695fa0672589ab191062392f686fca75d to before 4d69e74034b208588636ecc177e0dd43a7696af3` (git)
  - Other versions: unaffected
- Vendor: Linux. Product: Linux.
  - affected: `5.11`
  - unaffected: `before 5.11` (semver)
  - unaffected: `5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.12.113 to 6.12.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `6.18.57 to 6.18.*, inclusive` (semver)
  - unaffected: `7.2.11 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:** 0.0021, the 10th 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-2026-98971](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98971)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-98971](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98971)

### References from the CNA

- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0250acba81654b2ee50bde324ad72b3f0c04d0bd>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88b9c4bbf83d940ab672956e5af921215905dcb4>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bf3d841ef12fcbec4458e2750956b738b043a226>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b78c114600ae3df90c083c72c290437b068577c8>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01318927a9055136c207399eeb36ce07becac179>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7ec4dbd2a073dd53b6349be1c586fe8580dd6b2>
- <https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d69e74034b208588636ecc177e0dd43a7696af3>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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