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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98931"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:11:34.935Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:11:34.935Z"
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-2026-98931"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98931.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98931"
title: "mtd: spinand: fix NULL pointer dereference with no ECC engine"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmtd: spinand: fix NULL pointer dereference with no ECC engine\n\nWhen \"nand-no-ecc-engine\" is set in DT, nanddev_get_ecc_engine() takes\nthe NAND_ECC_ENGINE_TYPE_NONE path and returns success while leaving\nnand-\u003eecc.engine NULL. The SPI-NAND code nevertheless dereferences it\nunconditionally to test for a pipelined engine, so probing such a\ndevice oopses immediately.\n\nRather than open-coding the test three times, add a\nnand_ecc_is_pipelined() helper to the NAND core that folds the NULL\ncheck into the integration comparison, and use it everywhere. Future\ncallers then cannot reintroduce the problem."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f9d7c7265bcff7d9a17425a8cddf702e8fe159c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77c449c9c946fc420008dc55cd30f53749c915e4"},{"version":"f9d7c7265bcff7d9a17425a8cddf702e8fe159c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c765fd5212c1bbc71568b1518a7ec963a7040b4"},{"version":"f9d7c7265bcff7d9a17425a8cddf702e8fe159c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80e8b0ea73ba295e92dfb6cf1c41df9da64234c6"},{"version":"f9d7c7265bcff7d9a17425a8cddf702e8fe159c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc2f651f520394893b14b75281a01e502bfa73bb"},{"version":"f9d7c7265bcff7d9a17425a8cddf702e8fe159c2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b890e6163761ddb580cc74f43e15f8bbde15647e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"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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