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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98855"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:51:09.970Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:57:34.195Z"
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-2026-98855"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98855.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98855"
title: "of/overlay: put property on deadprops only after changeset add succeeds"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nof/overlay: put property on deadprops only after changeset add succeeds\n\nadd_changeset_property() links a new property of a not-yet-live\ntarget node into the node's deadprops list before handing it to\nof_changeset_add_property(). If that fails, the error path frees the\nproperty but leaves the freed pointer linked in deadprops, and\nof_node_release() frees it a second time when the aborted overlay's\nnode is released.\n\nRecord the changeset entry first and link the property into deadprops\nonly on success. of_changeset_add_property() never looks at the\nnode's property lists, so the order of the two steps is otherwise\nimmaterial, and the error path frees a property that nothing\nreferences."
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