# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98017"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:39.107Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:22.590Z"
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-2026-98017"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98017.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98017"
title: "net/sched: defer qdisc freeing after failed creation"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: defer qdisc freeing after failed creation\n\nAn RTM_NEWQDISC request can make clsact bind a populated shared ingress\nblock during -\u003einit(), publishing an embedded mini_Qdisc to lockless\nreaders.  If the same request has an invalid TCA_RATE, estimator setup\nfails after -\u003einit(); the unwind removes the pointer but synchronously\nfrees its containing qdisc while tc_run() may still hold it.\n\nRetire failed qdiscs through the same RCU helper as normal destruction.\nInline the synchronous free into the callback now that no direct callers\nremain."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"51ab2994c387c80b45caf8b8067b3f3b97771d25","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"96a27a3e64e7c87abade03fb2ad04ed66992a89a"},{"version":"51ab2994c387c80b45caf8b8067b3f3b97771d25","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a1b49bb9fdf9e8e7aa38e8cd635c0cc4074447d"},{"version":"51ab2994c387c80b45caf8b8067b3f3b97771d25","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20bf6fa34b345333971bd4464a322cce87b83f4e"},{"version":"51ab2994c387c80b45caf8b8067b3f3b97771d25","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"156a3bab69744e9225bb9eff8c5cc53da18d5a2e"},{"version":"51ab2994c387c80b45caf8b8067b3f3b97771d25","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5bfe927c5b4b290fad529186218c728589b4b101"},{"version":"51ab2994c387c80b45caf8b8067b3f3b97771d25","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e6662f2100f8d33b0f4d0047c219efd6bba186ea"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.16"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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