{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98748 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98748 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 18 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-2026-98748 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98748 is an use after free vulnerability in Linux, published on 18 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-2026-98748 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-2026-98748/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98748/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98748","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98748/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98748","record":{"aliases":["AZL-109419","BELL-CVE-2026-98748","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98748","GHSA-7g75-q55x-6r4j","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98748"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A use-after-free in the BCM7271 serial driver allows local attackers to execute code or crash the system when hardware flow control is enabled.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"use_after_free"},"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\nserial: 8250_bcm7271: fix use-after-free in brcmuart_remove()\n\nbrcmuart_handle_irq() starts priv-\u003ehrt to work around a receive-timeout\nquirk of the 8250 core when hardware flow control is enabled; the timer\ncallback brcmuart_hrtimer_func() dereferences priv.\n\nbrcmuart_remove() cancels the hrtimer before it unregisters the port, so\na receive-timeout interrupt that arrives in between re-arms the timer.\nAfter devm frees priv, the callback runs on freed memory.\n\nUnregister the port before cancelling the hrtimer.\nserial8250_unregister_port() shuts the port down and frees its IRQ, so\nbrcmuart_handle_irq() can no longer restart the timer, and the final\nhrtimer_cancel() drains any timer that was armed before or during the\nunregister.\n\nThis issue was found by an in-house static analysis tool.","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":"serial: 8250_bcm7271: fix use-after-free in brcmuart_remove()","id":"CVE-2026-98748","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"use_after_free","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"tty: serial: max3100: shut down timer before freeing port","id":"CVE-2026-98749"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"serial: core: fix NULL pointer dereference in serial_core_unregister_port()","id":"CVE-2026-98747"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-10-18","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":"2026-10-21","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A use-after-free in the BCM7271 serial driver allows local attackers to execute code or crash the system when hardware flow control is enabled.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98748/"}