# 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-2026-98623"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:19:44.744Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:22:51.359Z"
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-2026-98623"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98623.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98623"
title: "drm/nouveau/clk: fix list cursor use after loop in nvkm_clk_ustate_update"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/nouveau/clk: fix list cursor use after loop in nvkm_clk_ustate_update\n\nIf list_for_each_entry() exits without hitting a break then \"pstate\" is\nnot a valid pstate pointer.  Introduce a \"found\" variable instead.\n\nThe check is reachable from userspace: nvkm_clk_ustate_update() takes the\npstate id straight from the 'pstate' debugfs file, so requesting an id\nthat is not in clk-\u003estates - or any id at all when the perf tables are\nbroken and the list is empty - makes the pstate-\u003epstate != req test\ndereference the list head cast to a struct nvkm_pstate, which is an\nout-of-bounds read.\n\n[Francesco: rebased on drm-misc-next, expanded the commit message]"
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