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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98380" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-09T07:34:20.218Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:31.007Z" 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-2026-98380" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98380.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98380" title: "net/sched: reject IDR error pointers when deleting actions" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/sched: reject IDR error pointers when deleting actions\n\ntcf_action_delete() drops the reference held by its lookup before calling\ntcf_idr_delete_index() with the saved action index. An unlocked\nclassifier can remove that action and reserve the same IDR slot with\nERR_PTR(-EBUSY) in between.\n\ntcf_idr_delete_index() only checks the lookup result for NULL. It\ntherefore treats the reservation as a tc_action and dereferences\ntcfa_bindcnt. A hardware execution breakpoint was used to schedule the\ninterleaving without changing the kernel source. KASAN reported this\ndecoded trace:\n\n BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in tca_action_gd+0x5b9/0x1010\n Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000010 by task poc/150\n Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000002\n RIP: tca_action_gd+0x5c0/0x1010:\n arch_atomic_read at arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23\n raw_atomic_read at include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457\n atomic_read at include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:33\n tcf_idr_delete_index at net/sched/act_api.c:766\n tcf_action_delete at net/sched/act_api.c:1859\n tcf_del_notify at net/sched/act_api.c:2014\n tca_action_gd at net/sched/act_api.c:2064\n R13: 0000000000000010 R15: fffffffffffffff0\n Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception\n\nR15 contains ERR_PTR(-EBUSY), and adding the tcfa_bindcnt offset produces\nthe address in R13. With the guard applied, the same reproducer returned\n-ENOENT without a KASAN report or panic. Treat error pointers as absent\nand return -ENOENT." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39b751a210bf61a374afa82749afc7a77a08bf1d"},{"version":"0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd80a7519824b72c8fcfd3cc50cb93f7e2d90923"},{"version":"0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bf076258aac4e0af69ef317656c31ce6444d647"},{"version":"0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c9f07bf8800171de2cd3f02815cebe1f4d45f2d"},{"version":"0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"259caa711b7688365676442e2fdb286b8aceaa80"},{"version":"0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"968550a439f64bd1a6c0d88efb92e4f082f84a26"},{"version":"0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a9551f26287debe6d8aa6e8841974661065b975f"},{"version":"0190c1d452a91c38a3462abdd81752be1b9006a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c82b797abe668d0b668601a93ba2c0b071a63574"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.19"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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