# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98913"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T11:55:08.297Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T11:55:08.297Z"
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-2026-98913"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98913.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98913"
title: "net: thunderx: fix PTP device ref leak in nicvf_probe()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: thunderx: fix PTP device ref leak in nicvf_probe()\n\ncavium_ptp_get() acquires a reference to the PTP PCI device\nthrough pci_get_device(). If any initialization step fails\nafter cavium_ptp_get(), the PTP PCI device reference is leaked.\nAdd a common error path to release the PTP reference before\nreturning from probe failures."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a2eedb172e777f2c8608395eec42250fb355dae"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8bc44a1d86d5b432ec7f5a6f30b4e719a047374"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"df3d586ecc580623edadec71a6ffdf4c79e2a8e8"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"916d74343cd60ef7c3d433bd417d26ba31642c09"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2bcf59eefb9f00a2b1d426b639ee49c305a80695"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.189"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.158"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.111"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.53"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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