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CVE-2026-98831

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

of/overlay: don't leak fragment references when changeset init fails

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: of/overlay: don't leak fragment references when changeset init fails init_overlay_changeset() stores the number of initialized fragments in ovcs->count only on full success. When find_target() or the __symbols__ lookup fails partway through, the target and overlay references taken for the fragments initialized so far are never dropped: free_overlay_changeset() bounds its cleanup loop by ovcs->count, which is still 0. Store the running count on the error path so free_overlay_changeset() puts whatever was set up. The store is guarded by ovcs->fragments because on the allocation-failure path cnt still holds the counting pass total while there is no fragments array; everywhere else cnt only counts fully-initialized fragments.

Scoped product and version facts

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.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1affectedgit702b5db6e7b3865be70675d57d6fd7dde80d02b6UnavailableNone listed
61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1affectedgit894573e2fdaeb1b15030b7eebc22615edf28a6cdUnavailableNone listed
61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1affectedgit7a46f1917b320cc8762183b802301da02a191b6aUnavailableNone listed
61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1affectedgit3a23fb158ba517b77a2e5258263bdfdaa480f758UnavailableNone listed
61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1affectedgit1d62f0f2bc7edb12ed09f71203df0e47fa4efca4UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
4.15affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver4.15UnavailableNone listed
6.6.160unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.113unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.56unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.2.10unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.2.*None listed
7.3unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed