# 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-2026-98494"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:16:23.155Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:20:31.295Z"
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-2026-98494"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98494.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98494"
title: "net: atl1: fix soft lockup on out-of-range cmb_tpd_next_to_clean read"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: atl1: fix soft lockup on out-of-range cmb_tpd_next_to_clean read\n\nSame issue as atl1c (see the first commit in this series, \"net:\natl1c: fix soft lockup on out-of-range tpd_cons read\"): the hardware\ncan report an out-of-range cmb_tpd_next_to_clean (seen as 0xffff)\nwhile the PCIe link/MAC is resetting. An out-of-range value can\nnever be reached and the loop below would spin forever. Treat it as\n\"nothing new to clean\" instead."
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