# 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-2026-98669"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:45:05.836Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:55:33.672Z"
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-2026-98669"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98669.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98669"
title: "iio: buffer: serialize buffer teardown with mode claims"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niio: buffer: serialize buffer teardown with mode claims\n\nBuffer-mode claims hold mlock to guarantee that the device remains in\nbuffer mode until the claim is released. Normal buffer updates take\ninfo_exist_lock followed by mlock in iio_update_buffers().\n\nHowever, iio_device_unregister() disables and deactivates all buffers\nwithout taking mlock. This can invalidate buffer state, including\nactive_scan_mask, while a buffer-mode claim is held.\n\nTake mlock in iio_disable_all_buffers() so that unregister honors the\nmode-claim lifetime guarantee. The info_exist_lock -\u003e mlock ordering\nmatches iio_update_buffers()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0a8565425afd8ba0e1a0ea73e21da119ee6dacea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6a728408ff522b749c2a3c7e68f44e861fa0dbfb"},{"version":"0a8565425afd8ba0e1a0ea73e21da119ee6dacea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"89f3852a28fcf7bab599280cb082baa0675536db"},{"version":"0a8565425afd8ba0e1a0ea73e21da119ee6dacea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b466db9e68b4741af85f6c017e2bb0a2f025053f"},{"version":"0a8565425afd8ba0e1a0ea73e21da119ee6dacea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e63188d77e10c0951bf67da6c295f768fd1abf4b"},{"version":"0a8565425afd8ba0e1a0ea73e21da119ee6dacea","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"84bb0fc46ccf6a545b8fdf57cda83770186ed8dd"},{"version":"a9c471892d75847671a246619c2148578f22bbc6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"7bca0af538a49dacb1470f233be0676bdc09605b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.137","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.60","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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