CVE-2026-98697

CVE-2026-98697

published October 18, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race

Only free the dynamic ids after having deregistered the driver and

removed the "new_id" attribute to avoid leaking any id added by a racing

write to the attribute.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00168 · 5.7th percentile
Published
2026-10-18T20:17Z
References (5)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29172161236154f362e35694864cacbdeb07d060 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/380f57cd58e26e0f3687451196ec446c473c52d9 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d6da6867b4ac6468d634a0dd3c35dfc0dc8af81 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63594e8ffe097bc0b7639936f33799a7653dded2 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebd8fcaaacb66c15ae7e19d14619abe3762e0701 · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 OCT 03:34Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 18 OCT 15:46Z
    USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race
    cvelistv5
  • 18 OCT 15:46Z
    USB: serial: fix dynamic id driver deregistration race
    cvelistv5