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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98751"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:47:36.026Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:56:26.697Z"
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-2026-98751"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98751.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98751"
title: "tty: abort break signalling on hangup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ntty: abort break signalling on hangup\n\nThe break ioctls can race with hangup and end up calling into a tty\ndriver for a device that is already gone or powered down.\n\nDrivers must handle this race, but TCSBRK and TCSBRKP should still be\naborted to avoid calling back into the driver after a user-controlled\ntimeout (possibly even after the tty has been reopened).\n\nNote that drivers should disable any break state on shutdown so just\nreturn on hangup (calling break_ctl() again is racy and will most likely\nfail for drivers handling the race)."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c9c9367351a461d62e5c0a39bffdcfbb40f068b"},{"version":"f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3bc82999fb85cecc7eb6ec1755ee7d698aa1e783"},{"version":"f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94af6cd832e9b4ce39a8fb59144a8f09ab56fd35"},{"version":"f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8ccd3b2013daaf77b98f8a6724fcf4d2c5c52d6"},{"version":"f34d7a5b7010b82fe97da95496b9971435530062","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"845a2737e0f5ffe5ca8d38de556012b0c9472cdd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.26","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.26"},{"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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