# 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-2026-98756"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:47:42.085Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:56:32.189Z"
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-2026-98756"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98756.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98756"
title: "usb: cdns3: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cdns3_pci_probe"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nusb: cdns3: Fix NULL pointer dereference in cdns3_pci_probe\n\nThe Cadence USBSS controller is a two-function PCI device. The first\nprobed function allocates the driver data and stores it with\npci_set_drvdata(), while the second function reuses it via\npci_get_drvdata() when pci_is_enabled() reports that the first\nfunction has already been probed.\n\nWhen the second function is probed while the first one has been\nenabled but has not yet set its driver data, pci_get_drvdata()\nreturns NULL, and the subsequent wrap-\u003edevfn assignment dereferences\na NULL pointer and crashes the kernel.\nlogs:\nCall trace:\n  cdns3_pci_probe+0xa4/0x300\n  local_pci_probe+0x44/0xa8\n  pci_call_probe+0x54/0x158\n  pci_device_probe+0x84/0x100\n  really_probe+0x184/0x3d0\n  __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x178\n  driver_probe_device+0x44/0xe8\n  __driver_attach+0xec/0x1f8\n  bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xe0\n  driver_attach+0x28/0x38\n  bus_add_driver+0x110/0x238\n  driver_register+0x64/0x128\n  __pci_register_driver+0x50/0x60\n  cdns3_pci_driver_init+0x28/0x38\n  do_one_initcall+0x5c/0x280\n  do_initcalls+0x104/0x1d8\n  kernel_init_freeable+0x140/0x218\n  kernel_init+0x28/0x1f8\n  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n\nReturn -EPROBE_DEFER in this case so that probing is retried after\nthe first function has completed its probe."
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