# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98016"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:38.316Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:21.604Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98016"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98016.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98016"
title: "net/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free race in sample_restore_put()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix use-after-free race in sample_restore_put()\n\nConcurrent teardown of TC sample rules sharing the same restore\ncontext may re-read restore-\u003ecount after dropping restore_lock.\nAt that point another thread may already have completed cleanup and\nfreed the restore object.\n\nUse the result of the refcount decrement while holding restore_lock to\ndetermine whether cleanup is needed."
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