# 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-2026-98161"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T13:06:51.138Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:54:44.996Z"
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-2026-98161"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98161.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98161"
title: "nvdimm: pmem: keep PREFLUSH before data writes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnvdimm: pmem: keep PREFLUSH before data writes\n\npmem_submit_bio() records a REQ_PREFLUSH error, but continues to copy the\nbio data and can later overwrite the error with a successful REQ_FUA flush.\nThat lets data writes run after a failed preflush and can complete the bio\nsuccessfully despite the failed ordering barrier.\n\nRun the REQ_PREFLUSH flush synchronously before touching the bio data and\ncomplete the bio with the flush error if it fails. Keep asynchronous flush\nchaining for REQ_FUA. At that point, data copy has completed and the parent\nbio can wait for the chained flush bio."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"c5d4355d10d414a96ca870b731756b89d068d57a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22d1f4dcdc9c6d0295c6db0c8933126098b14e05"},{"version":"c5d4355d10d414a96ca870b731756b89d068d57a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d34c30bc994328d9cf6749b2e9a32aabd08fd076"},{"version":"c5d4355d10d414a96ca870b731756b89d068d57a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"770a90c2127220f0fc194ce909ad4f0842e141cb"},{"version":"c5d4355d10d414a96ca870b731756b89d068d57a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72561ca1ab96f0f0f32737a6171641e05a318538"},{"version":"c5d4355d10d414a96ca870b731756b89d068d57a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c644a2f8fef5618fcf453c591177700fd07dd024"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.3"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","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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