{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98388 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98388 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 14 Oct 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-2026-98388 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98388 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 14 Oct 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-2026-98388 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. 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-2026-98388/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98388/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98388","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98388/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98388","record":{"aliases":["AZL-108174","BELL-CVE-2026-98388","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98388","GHSA-chvx-fr8p-v654","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98388"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A local attacker can cause a system deadlock or hang by exploiting a race condition involving filesystem operations during process execution.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nexec: do_close_on_exec() before taking exec_update_lock\n\ndo_close_on_exec() currently happens while holding the exec_update_lock,\nwhich is used in a lot of places that access process state to\nsynchronize access checks.\nI recently added another such use of exec_update_lock, causing a\nregression.\n\ndo_close_on_exec() can block waiting for a reply from a filesystem.\nThat means a hung filesystem can block codepaths that use\nexec_update_lock; and it also means that a FUSE filesystem which\nattempts to inspect the calling process can deadlock.\n\nTo avoid such problems, move do_close_on_exec() before the\nexec_update_lock is taken, but after the FD table has been copied if\nnecessary.\n\nI have looked through all the calls between the old and new position of\nthe do_close_on_exec() call; there seems to be no file descriptor table\naccess in between.","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":"exec: do_close_on_exec() before taking exec_update_lock","id":"CVE-2026-98388","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"drm/amdgpu: skip gfx switch_power_profile during GPU reset","id":"CVE-2026-98389"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"s390/crypto: Fix skcipher_walk return code handling in aes_s390","id":"CVE-2026-98387"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-10-14","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local attacker can cause a system deadlock or hang by exploiting a race condition involving filesystem operations during process execution.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98388/"}