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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98983" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:00.918Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:20:00.918Z" 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-2026-98983" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98983.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98983" title: "unshare: don't drop active namespace references that were never taken" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nunshare: don't drop active namespace references that were never taken\n\nActive references on the namespaces of an nsproxy are taken when the\nnsproxy is installed into a task in switch_task_namespaces() and\ncopy_namespaces() and dropped again by put_nsproxy() through\ndeactivate_nsproxy().\n\nBut ksys_unshare() calls put_nsproxy() on an nsproxy that was never\ninstalled when set_cred_ucounts() fails. The new namespaces of that\nnsproxy go from zero to minus one and the namespaces shared with the\ncaller lose a reference that belongs to the nsproxy the caller keeps\nusing:\n\n WARNING: kernel/nscommon.c:171 at __ns_ref_active_put+0x1cd/0x230\n nsproxy_ns_active_put\n deactivate_nsproxy\n ksys_unshare\n\nAfterwards the namespaces the caller lives in aren't listed by listns()\nanymore. set_cred_ucounts() only fails when alloc_ucounts() can't\nallocate and it only allocates when the real uid of the caller differs\nfrom its effective uid.\n\nCommit cefd55bd2159 (\"nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify\ncreate_new_namespaces()\") separated the two cases on purpose.\nnsproxy_free() frees an nsproxy that was prepared but never installed\nand that's what a failed setns() uses in put_nsset(). Export it and use\nit for a failed unshare() as well." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a98621a0f187a934c115dcfe79a49520ae892111","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"56fe03a0c05dba4c5f6a23c391f96de1614a098c"},{"version":"a98621a0f187a934c115dcfe79a49520ae892111","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b6f31a3c0b16066f812e94b52a704174a6f23cd"},{"version":"27ae6b17c9ba7ff353ab0906297f08aa845782b4","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"297261b343371c4f0b31055d53d285138ec21565","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"813a47b0309097da71781ee4ac11922e39b67d55","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6e608e3e5ce12ce7fd21e46212eccca37f917d0e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a261fccdb4ac58ec5ba6aa1d92a6cc418fff301f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"665dc1ed16357988d439fc5bbc860ee36f540d81","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.2"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.13"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"7.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.1"},{"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"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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