# 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-2026-98227"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:02.265Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:15:58.990Z"
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-2026-98227"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98227.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98227"
title: "memstick: ms_block: destroy io_queue workqueue on removal"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmemstick: ms_block: destroy io_queue workqueue on removal\n\nmsb_init_disk() creates the per-card ordered workqueue msb-\u003eio_queue with\nalloc_ordered_workqueue(). It is torn down with destroy_workqueue() only\non the init error path; msb_remove() never destroys it. msb_stop() merely\nflushes the queue, and neither msb_data_clear() nor put_disk() free it. As\na result every card insert/remove cycle leaks the workqueue and its\nkworker, exhausting kernel memory over repeated cycles.\n\nDestroy the workqueue in msb_remove() after the disk has been removed and\nthe queue drained."
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