# 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-2026-98281"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:40.719Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:52.791Z"
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-2026-98281"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98281.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98281"
title: "futex: Also allocate private hash on vfork()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfutex: Also allocate private hash on vfork()\n\nAs Jann demonstrated, it is entirely feasible to access the mm through vfork().\nTherefore we need to allocate a private hash on vfork() as well as any other\nCLONE_VM user.\n\nSpecifically, it must be avoided to have (private) futex waiters before\nallocating the private hash."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1dcd36420af2da5bd59306dba9caf78e3d248b1d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5468a4855b63b30156a79e5248e01bf1a2c18dd7"},{"version":"ee9dce44362b2d8132c32964656ab6dff7dfbc6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"eecbafa8cabbc4d1482f6a5e2acc25a8f934681b"},{"version":"ee9dce44362b2d8132c32964656ab6dff7dfbc6a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b61b6f95d6722ddbbbd09e689fa41b55fd36f9a5"},{"version":"974ac49a9a068b0591a59f65c63eb06579a13091","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.54"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"},{"version":"6.18.54","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.8","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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