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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98854"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:51:06.167Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:57:33.107Z"
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-2026-98854"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98854.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98854"
title: "of/overlay: only treat a positive changeset id as registered"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nof/overlay: only treat a positive changeset id as registered\n\nof_overlay_fdt_apply() stores the idr_alloc() return value in\novcs-\u003eid before checking it. On failure the stored id is negative,\nfree_overlay_changeset()'s \"if (ovcs-\u003eid)\" check passes, idr_remove()\nis called with a negative id and list_del() runs on ovcs-\u003eovcs_list,\nwhich is not initialized until after the id allocation. An allocation\nfailure at that point dereferences NULL.\n\nMake free_overlay_changeset() treat only a strict-positive id as\nregistered. The rest of the function already copes with a\npartially-initialized ovcs, so the error path stays a plain\ngoto err_free_ovcs."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc688475c56d34a2b584141f9544cbe23360080d"},{"version":"61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c08a54df9d33dcd6ff089adc9434b2c008af3a39"},{"version":"61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d1525fdcd3355672b7485d61e55df6824ab5ad1"},{"version":"61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c875407c34dadaef0599834ad9c815f4c9f50d15"},{"version":"61b4de4e0b384f4a22c55c3bada604da49cec4e1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"44081d708b5b885487bac792db78324b7b4c267d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"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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