CVE-2026-98896

Updated on 23 Oct 2026

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

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Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

thunderbolt: Keep the domain reference while processing hotplug

We process hotplug events in a workqueue that may run after the domain has been removed by tb_domain_remove(). For example if user unloads the driver while at the same time plugging a device router we may have scheduled tb_handle_hotplug() to run. Avoid possible UAF in this case by taking the domain reference before scheduling the hotplug handler in tb_queue_hotplug().

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KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Oracle Linux 8 UEK 7 Planned —
Oracle Linux 9 UEK 7 Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 AWS Planned —
Ubuntu 22.04 Azure Planned —
Ubuntu 26.04 Planned —