CVE-2026-98380
N/AIn the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/sched: reject IDR error pointers when deleting actions tcf_action_delete() drops the reference held by its lookup before calling tcf_idr_delete_index() with the saved action index. An unlocked classifier can remove that action and reserve the same IDR slot with ERR_PTR(-EBUSY) in between. tcf_idr_delete_index() only checks the lookup result for NULL. It therefore treats the reservation as a tc_action and dereferences tcfa_bindcnt. A hardware execution breakpoint was used to schedule the interleaving without changing the kernel source. KASAN reported this decoded trace: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in tca_action_gd+0x5b9/0x1010 Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000010 by task poc/150 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000002 RIP: tca_action_gd+0x5c0/0x1010: arch_atomic_read at arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23 raw_atomic_read at include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457 atomic_read at include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:33 tcf_idr_delete_index at net/sched/act_api.c:766 tcf_action_delete at net/sched/act_api.c:1859 tcf_del_notify at net/sched/act_api.c:2014 tca_action_gd at net/sched/act_api.c:2064 R13: 0000000000000010 R15: fffffffffffffff0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception R15 contains ERR_PTR(-EBUSY), and adding the tcfa_bindcnt offset produces the address in R13. With the guard applied, the same reproducer returned -ENOENT without a KASAN report or panic. Treat error pointers as absent and return -ENOENT.
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Exploitation likelihood
0.2%chance of exploitation in 30 days · 7th percentile
Impact if exploited
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kernel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · known affected
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pkg:rpm/redhat/kernel
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kernel-debug as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · known affected
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pkg:rpm/redhat/kernel-debug
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kernel-rt as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · known affected
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kernel-rt-debug-kvm as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · known affected
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pkg:rpm/redhat/kernel-rt-debug-kvm
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kernel-zfcpdump-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · known affected
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pkg:rpm/redhat/kernel-zfcpdump-devel
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kernel-doc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · known affected
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pkg:rpm/redhat/kernel-doc
- no fix planned: Out of support scope
kernel-debug-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · known affected
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kernel-rt-debug-modules as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · known affected
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kernel-zfcpdump-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · known affected
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kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · known affected
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kernel-debug-devel-matched as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · known affected
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pkg:rpm/redhat/kernel-debug-devel-matched
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kernel-modules-partner as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · known affected
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pkg:rpm/redhat/kernel-modules-partner
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kernel-rt-64k-kvm as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · known affected
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pkg:rpm/redhat/kernel-rt-64k-kvm
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kernel-rt-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · known affected
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kernel-zfcpdump as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · known affected
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openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · known affected
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pkg:oci/ose-rhel-coreos-9?repository_url=registry.redhat.io/openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
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bpftool as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-abi-whitelists as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-debug as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-debug-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-doc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-kdump as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-rt as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-rt-debug-devel as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-rt-debug-kvm as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-rt-doc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-rt-trace as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-rt-trace-kvm as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-tools as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel-tools-libs as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00kernel.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00python-perf as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · known not affected
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Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00
References
Advisories
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-98380.json Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-95535 EUVD · EUVD-2026-95535
Technical & other
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39b751a210bf61a374afa82749afc7a77a08bf1dCVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-19T09:18:31.007Z
NVD · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-19T10:18:41.317 - https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd80a7519824b72c8fcfd3cc50cb93f7e2d90923CVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-19T09:18:31.007Z
NVD · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-19T10:18:41.317 - https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bf076258aac4e0af69ef317656c31ce6444d647CVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-19T09:18:31.007Z
NVD · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-19T10:18:41.317 - https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6c9f07bf8800171de2cd3f02815cebe1f4d45f2dCVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-19T09:18:31.007Z
NVD · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-19T10:18:41.317 - https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/259caa711b7688365676442e2fdb286b8aceaa80CVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-19T09:18:31.007Z
NVD · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-19T10:18:41.317 - https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/968550a439f64bd1a6c0d88efb92e4f082f84a26CVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-19T09:18:31.007Z
NVD · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-19T10:18:41.317 - https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a9551f26287debe6d8aa6e8841974661065b975fCVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-19T09:18:31.007Z
NVD · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-19T10:18:41.317 - https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c82b797abe668d0b668601a93ba2c0b071a63574CVE record · Linux · Updated 2026-10-19T09:18:31.007Z
NVD · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-19T10:18:41.317 - https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-98380 Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2548391 Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98380 Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-98380 Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-98380.mbox Red Hat · CVE-2026-98380 · Updated 2026-10-10T16:00:58+00:00