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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98840" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:50:14.029Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:57:25.411Z" 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-2026-98840" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98840.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98840" title: "vc_screen: reload vc pointer before if (ret) in vcs_write() to avoid UAF" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvc_screen: reload vc pointer before if (ret) in vcs_write() to avoid UAF\n\nThe reload of 'vc' added by commit 8fb9ea65c9d1 (\"vc_screen: reload load\nof struct vc_data pointer in vcs_write() to avoid UAF\") sits after the\n'if (ret)' block, so the copy-failure break path exits the loop without\nreloading vc. If the vc was kfree()'d via vc_port_destruct during the\nunlocked copy_from_user() window, the post-loop\n'if (written && vc) vcs_scr_updated(vc)' is reached with a stale\nnon-NULL vc. The '&& vc' guard from commit a287620312dc (\"vc_screen:\nfix null-ptr-deref in vcs_notifier() during concurrent vcs_write\") only\nhandles the NULL case, not this stale-non-NULL case; vcs_notifier() then\nreads param-\u003evc-\u003evc_num from freed memory:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in vcs_notifier+0x7c/0xd0\n Read of size 2 at addr ffff888007149190\n Call Trace:\n vcs_notifier+0x7c/0xd0\n atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x70/0xa0\n vcs_scr_updated+0x77/0xa0\n vcs_write+0x71b/0x7e0\n Allocated by task: vc_allocate -\u003e con_install -\u003e tty_open\n Freed by task: kfree \u003c- vt_ioctl (VT_DISALLOCATE -\u003e vc_port_destruct)\n\nMove the reload to immediately after console_lock(), before 'if (ret)',\nso every break path below passes a fresh vc to the post-loop\nvcs_scr_updated()." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8232fca738011ca2ec865b46ec721d1796dc0580","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c073d01f6f5367c3a4f07efd507274ed0d03acd0"},{"version":"73049768ad57145acd337102c5aa3c788e6642c8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1485a3dd97ab1af2605243cabe6b604546d46dd1"},{"version":"7cc3dd79777f6ae4625ec37e84dd18a26dc88bde","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"233a2e190b12884d186027d0b86d43a48799b69c"},{"version":"a287620312dc6dcb9a093417a0e589bf30fcf38a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9dfcadc5e003fb250dd471db90144bd5366140e9"},{"version":"a287620312dc6dcb9a093417a0e589bf30fcf38a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"226bd5603371cd9f6642cbb9e9a677f445de3530"},{"version":"43a6281790273c1b0a9ab76609ff0245b968f1e6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b6bbb85cf45bf0b070e741997fe0af3a772c5ad5","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"ff4806202749a51938236214adc0281481a57366","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"74be188eb2dc1c99d63986167b9a67d415fe7326","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"09a43e81279b8da15526da09877134b8bcf618b0","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.6.144","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.160"},{"version":"6.12.95","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.113"},{"version":"6.18.37","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.56"},{"version":"5.10.260","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.211","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.177","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"7.0.14","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"},{"version":"7.1.2","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.2"},{"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"}] ## 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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