# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98943"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:01.620Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:01.620Z"
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-2026-98943"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98943.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98943"
title: "HID: steam: Clean up locking"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nHID: steam: Clean up locking\n\nThis cleans up several issues with locking behavior, including RCU accesses\nnot being guarded behind a lock."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cbf9961602ffb34d6902bbe9a247c54e13361265"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6bce4b221dc0e144180c333123dbb82d1dc3a500"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d1e095c75d12799a1cd855a399f88c89147c1eca"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c714d6691515fa3d38eb770b484a0046593ccc9"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de1d341b9b3ec9655f31fb8b44f784cca5e670ad"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.160"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.113"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.57"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.2.11"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.11","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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