CVE record · CVE-2026-99136

dm-crypt: fix a tiny race condition in crypt_dec_pending

CVSS 7.0 HighEPSS 0.0012 · 2nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 28 Oct 2026, 10:34 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 b35f8caa0890169000fec22902290d9a15274cbd to before 445a6883f46d3ab1ff545199a8cc1d5834936d3f git
  • affected b35f8caa0890169000fec22902290d9a15274cbd to before 6f82e86471c92fd874f2630c9a6af887f4ed1a77 git
  • affected b35f8caa0890169000fec22902290d9a15274cbd to before 6ac8546df1f8a2b1ca7f6d67c269057a99fbbf8c git
  • affected b35f8caa0890169000fec22902290d9a15274cbd to before 056bf8322e39a48026df352d6227ec03dd8cd032 git
  • affected b35f8caa0890169000fec22902290d9a15274cbd to before d9d7069bb79139271b54dc477f07e242c445de6b git
  • affected b35f8caa0890169000fec22902290d9a15274cbd to before ac5d887ab93592fc5e3605fe30c1d8d232d609b3 git
  • affected b35f8caa0890169000fec22902290d9a15274cbd to before 4f16bb982b27b9f5a15301f622c318001fe521f8 git
  • affected b35f8caa0890169000fec22902290d9a15274cbd to before 148845aa1921d95ef5dc851c76e6a284f6657df6 git
  • affected 9c8f3fcd3ffd3283cc0971c8919058356f20a963 git
  • affected 2.6.28.9 to before 2.6.29 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.29
  • unaffected before 2.6.29 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.161 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.115 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.59 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.13 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-99136
CNA
Linux
Published
28 Oct 2026
Updated
31 Oct 2026

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

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.0 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0012, the 2nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2026, 10:34 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List

Sources

References from the CNA

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.