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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98839" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:50:11.869Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:26:31.558Z" 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-2026-98839" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98839.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98839" title: "vt: selection: Fix unsigned underflow and slab-out-of-bounds read in paste_selection()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvt: selection: Fix unsigned underflow and slab-out-of-bounds read in paste_selection()\n\nIn paste_selection(), the loop copies min_t(unsigned int,\nvc_sel.buf_len - pasted,tty-\u003ereceive_room) bytes per iteration into\ntty_ldisc_receive_buf() and increments pasted += count.\n\nBecause the selection mutex (vc_sel.lock) is dropped inside the loop\nWhenever the line discipline buffer fills up and paste_selection()\nsleeps on tty-\u003ewrite_wait, a concurrent TIOCLINUX (TIOCL_SETSEL) ioctl\ncan replace vc_sel.buffer with a shorter selection and reduce\nvc_sel.buf_len below pasted.\n\nWhen paste_selection() resumes, vc_sel.buf_len - pasted underflows as an\nunsigned integer to a large positive value, causing\ntty_ldisc_receive_buf(ld, vc_sel.buffer + pasted, NULL, count) to read\nup to 4094 bytes out-of-bounds past the newly allocated vc_sel.buffer.\n\nFix this by terminating the loop when pasted \u003e= vc_sel.buf_len.\n\nKernel stack trace (Linux 7.3.0-rc3):\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in n_tty_receive_buf_common+0xa01/0x1650\n Read of size 4094 at addr ffff888101c58010 by task kworker/u17:1/65\n Workqueue: events_unbound flush_to_ldisc\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x70/0xa0\n print_report+0x153/0x4c6\n kasan_report+0xf1/0x120\n kasan_check_range+0x11c/0x200\n __asan_memcpy+0x29/0x70\n n_tty_receive_buf_common+0xa01/0x1650\n tty_ldisc_receive_buf+0x66/0x110\n tty_port_default_receive_buf+0x6b/0xb0\n flush_to_ldisc+0x1b4/0x410\n process_one_work+0x6ff/0x1110\n worker_thread+0x4a8/0xb70\n kthread+0x307/0x3e0\n ret_from_fork+0x3ed/0x680\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n ==================================================================" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e8c75a30a23c6ba63f4ef6895cbf41fd42f21aa2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"037d7e3ca5c593092f4b0d471eb869a85cbddde0"},{"version":"e8c75a30a23c6ba63f4ef6895cbf41fd42f21aa2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"619c6d7dd76fff15a9714fbf02ce299b737f01a2"},{"version":"e8c75a30a23c6ba63f4ef6895cbf41fd42f21aa2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"39495ef5d6f8019e62d65807f217a7ca8232727a"},{"version":"54c522782fd11a720f959ee9cb5a15bb9580343d","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"05c508edc9d0b44e4706d3c2cf14ee12aac210d2","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"e5be0e24ffc7f5783a3864b5b958088ed15be9e8","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a4719f6d07b2c63223f7452c435c5f578f105cfe","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b4492f1e7456bd162714c0ec2815c2749d930844","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9a9c13ad21a8220cb70c9807a920f43520515f94","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"8c368d36878e2fc99285279fc5e14b3d3cb8947c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.16.83","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"4.4.216","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.216","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.173","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.19.109","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.20"},{"version":"5.4.25","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.5"},{"version":"5.5.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.6"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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