CVE WATCH / VULNERABILITY DETAIL
CVE-2026-98939
UNKNOWNCVSS 0NVD feed
Published 23 October 2026 · tracked since 24 October 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm: Drop unnecessary PMD page copy when freeing On a box with a discrete GPU, lockdep reports a possible deadlock as soon as kswapd shrinks the TTM page pool. The immediate cause is an x86 commit that added an mmap_read_lock()
References
- NVD — National Vulnerability Database
- CVE.org record (MITRE)
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog