{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98856 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98856 is a memory corruption 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-2026-98856 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98856 is a memory corruption 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-2026-98856 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-2026-98856/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98856/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98856","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98856/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98856","record":{"aliases":["AZL-108723","BELL-CVE-2026-98856","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98856","GHSA-9hm5-vfv2-whh5","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98856"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A local attacker with high privileges can trigger memory corruption in the Linux kernel kprobes subsystem, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"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\nkprobes: Skip disarmed probes when checking optkprobe overlap\n\nOn x86, an optkprobe at A replaces five bytes with a jump. If a disabled\nprobe B is at A+2, get_optimized_kprobe() stops at B when arming a new\nprobe C at A+4. It leaves A optimized:\n\n              A    A+1  A+2  A+3  A+4\n  A's jump  | e9 | d0 | d1 | d2 | d3 |\n  after C   | e9 | d0 | d1 | d2 | cc |\n\nThe INT3 for C overwrites the last byte of A's jump displacement, so\nexecution can jump to the wrong address. B can have prepared optinsns\nwhile disarmed, but has no jump to unoptimize.\n\nContinue past disarmed and unprepared probes to find the active optimized\nprobe before arming a probe in its jump.","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":"kprobes: Skip disarmed probes when checking optkprobe overlap","id":"CVE-2026-98856","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":5,"next":{"headline":"ipvs: bound LBLCR and LBLC cache growth","id":"CVE-2026-98857"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"of/overlay: put property on deadprops only after changeset add succeeds","id":"CVE-2026-98855"},"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 local attacker with high privileges can trigger memory corruption in the Linux kernel kprobes subsystem, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98856/"}