# 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-2026-98593"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:19:05.272Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:22:18.775Z"
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-2026-98593"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98593.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98593"
title: "s390/debug: Fix NULL pointer dereference in debug_info_copy()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ns390/debug: Fix NULL pointer dereference in debug_info_copy()\n\nWhen debug_register_static() fails, it clears areas, active_pages and\nactive_entries but leaves the area bounds unchanged. Copying such an\narea, either by opening its view file or via debug_dump(), makes\ndebug_info_copy() dereference the NULL pointers.\n\nSkip the copy loop when the source has no areas."
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