{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98138 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98138 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-98138 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98138 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 25 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98138 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98138/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98138/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98138","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98138/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98138","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98138","GHSA-hj9h-73j9-cr9g","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98138"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel NTFS driver","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"The Linux kernel NTFS driver incorrectly marks volumes as clean after errors, preventing necessary recovery and potentially leaving data in an inconsistent state.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"other"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[{"product":"linux_kernel","vendor":"linux"}],"cvss":{"score":5.5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nntfs: do not mark the volume clean in sync_fs when errors were recorded\n\nntfs_put_super() and the remount-read-only path both clear the dirty bit\nonly when NVolErrors(vol) is false. ntfs_sync_fs() clears it\nunconditionally, so any sync() on a volume that recorded an error marks\nthat volume clean. A volume without this set is then seen as not needing\nrecovery and it does not run one, so whatever went wrong is never repaired.\n\nThis change skips resetting the dirty bit when there are volume errors.\n\nReproduced on a volume whose $MFTMirr does not match $MFT, which sets the\nerror flag while leaving the mount read-write: after a write and a sync,\nthe on-disk volume flags read 0x0000 with this driver and 0x0001 with the\nguard in place.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"ntfs: do not mark the volume clean in sync_fs when errors were recorded","id":"CVE-2026-98138","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"linux:linux_kernel","products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"type":"other","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"ntfs: only count successfully cleared runs when freeing clusters","id":"CVE-2026-98139"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"ntfs: treat any nonzero dio zero-range return as an error","id":"CVE-2026-98137"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-09-25","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Out-of-Bounds Write","id":"CVE-2026-53266","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2026-06-25"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation","id":"CVE-2013-6282","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-11-19"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2022-0185","kev_date_added":"2024-08-21","published":"2022-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation","id":"CVE-2013-2094","kev_date_added":"2022-09-15","published":"2013-05-14"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Unspecified","id":"CVE-2026-53362","kev_date_added":"2026-08-27","published":"2026-07-04"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable","id":"CVE-2026-46300","kev_date_added":"2026-10-28","published":"2026-05-23"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Race Condition","id":"CVE-2025-39964","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-10-13"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"The Linux kernel NTFS driver incorrectly marks volumes as clean after errors, preventing necessary recovery and potentially leaving data in an inconsistent state.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98138/"}