# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98553"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:20.728Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:36.247Z"
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-2026-98553"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98553.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98553"
title: "autofs: fix sbi-\u003epipe file reference leak in autofs_kill_sb()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nautofs: fix sbi-\u003epipe file reference leak in autofs_kill_sb()\n\nWhen autofs_fill_super() fails before clearing AUTOFS_SBI_CATATONIC (for\nexample, when find_get_pid() fails on an invalid pgrp mount option, or\nwhen an fs_context is closed before mounting), deactivate_locked_super()\ninvokes autofs_kill_sb() -\u003e autofs_catatonic_mode(sbi).\n\nBecause AUTOFS_SBI_CATATONIC is still set in sbi-\u003eflags,\nautofs_catatonic_mode() returns early without calling fput(sbi-\u003epipe),\npermanently leaking the pipe struct file reference.\n\nExplicitly release sbi-\u003epipe in autofs_kill_sb() if it is still non-NULL\nafter autofs_catatonic_mode()."
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