# 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-2026-98199"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:44:37.623Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:15:30.300Z"
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-2026-98199"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98199.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98199"
title: "hwmon: (pmbus/core) increase number of phases and add new mask"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nhwmon: (pmbus/core) increase number of phases and add new mask\n\nIncrease the number of phases to 16 as a new upcoming device supports\nsuch a number.\n\nWhile at it, add a new mask for controlling the source of the output\nvoltage.\n\nNote (groeck):\n\nThis patch was meant to prepare for support of MAX20826 and compatible\ndevices, which support more than 10 phases per page. However, Sashiko\nreports that the mp2975 driver already supports up to 14 phases, and the\nmp2856 driver supports up to 12 phases. This already has the potential for\nout-of-bounds writes when probing the affected chips, making this patch a\nbug fix."
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