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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98537" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:05.028Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:20.715Z" 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-2026-98537" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98537.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98537" title: "workqueue: Fix NULL current_pwq deref in flush dependency check" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nworkqueue: Fix NULL current_pwq deref in flush dependency check\n\ncheck_flush_dependency() uses current_wq_worker() to determine whether\nthe caller is a workqueue worker and then dereferences worker-\u003ecurrent_pwq\nto test whether the current workqueue is WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.\n\ncurrent_wq_worker() only means that %current has PF_WQ_WORKER set. A\nkworker can reach check_flush_dependency() while it is not executing a\nwork item. One such path is worker_thread() acting as the pool manager,\nwhere create_worker() does GFP_KERNEL allocation and the allocation path\ninvokes the OOM notifier. In that state worker-\u003ecurrent_pwq is NULL\nbecause current_pwq is set only by process_one_work() and cleared again\nafter the work function returns.\n\n[ 416.760634][ T375] Call trace:\n[ 416.760638][ T375] check_flush_dependency+0x80/0x120 (P)\n[ 416.760648][ T375] __flush_work+0x98/0x224\n[ 416.760657][ T375] flush_work+0x30/0x44\n[ 416.760665][ T375] ...\n[ 416.760710][ T375] blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x58/0xa0\n[ 416.760719][ T375] out_of_memory+0xb4/0x458\n[ 416.760730][ T375] __alloc_pages_may_oom+0x11c/0x1a8\n[ 416.760739][ T375] __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x314/0x46c\n[ 416.760746][ T375] __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x110/0x1a4\n[ 416.760753][ T375] new_slab+0x12c/0x484\n[ 416.760759][ T375] ___slab_alloc+0x7a8/0xc7c\n[ 416.760765][ T375] __slab_alloc+0x74/0xd8\n[ 416.760772][ T375] __kmalloc_cache_node_noprof+0x2ac/0x304\n[ 416.760779][ T375] alloc_worker+0x28/0x60\n[ 416.760785][ T375] create_worker+0x4c/0x20c\n[ 416.760790][ T375] worker_thread+0xe8/0x2b8\n[ 416.760796][ T375] kthread+0x1a8/0x200\n[ 416.760805][ T375] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n\nGuard the WQ_MEM_RECLAIM-worker warning with worker-\u003ecurrent_pwq. If the\nkworker is not currently executing a work item, there is no current\nworkqueue to diagnose with that warning. The PF_MEMALLOC warning is left\nunchanged so explicit reclaim context flushing a !WQ_MEM_RECLAIM target\nis still reported." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ffececcb88262389b4f91fed0fe4884b68204bc"},{"version":"fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9bb739a5c5a570c28a62afb98e9326e2a49743c1"},{"version":"fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc190a6a1d20b87e6a9435202fc2a3bd84c79fb3"},{"version":"fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"513121e69388604619ea8c0ee07e86a3d1b5b5dc"},{"version":"fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0c6b9b1e295aeff1132ac7aa738148cc65f06485"},{"version":"fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1dccf5dc2f8fe688270b261ca4216e03c6a1e674"},{"version":"fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f97e6d0572d1b39998e053732332bc3cfdd0b9aa"},{"version":"fca839c00a12d682cb59b3b620d109a1d850b262","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db6365ced4d5855e321f772b240c0e473bcfcdd5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"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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