# 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-2026-98656"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:44:07.883Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:55:23.832Z"
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-2026-98656"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98656.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98656"
title: "iio: trigger: cancel reenable_work before freeing trigger"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: trigger: cancel reenable_work before freeing trigger\n\niio_trigger_notify_done_atomic() defers -\u003ereenable() into\ntrig-\u003ereenable_work on the system workqueue, and the worker dereferences\nthe owning trigger through container_of().  Nothing cancels this work\nbefore iio_trig_release() frees the trigger, so a worker armed by the\nlast in-flight IRQ can outlive the free and touch freed memory.\n\nCancel it at the top of iio_trig_release(), which every free path\nreaches through the device core's final put_device().\n\nFound by an in-house static analysis tool."
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