CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-98948

Vulnerability intelligence

Published Oct 23, 2026Sources checked Oct 27, 2026

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What this means

Review the available evidence

CVE-2026-98948. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.

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Vendor revision: Oct 26, 2026

Release Notes

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability

Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field

Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships

Overview

What is CVE-2026-98948?

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mlxsw: spectrum_flower: Fix port range register leak in tmplt_create()

mlxsw_sp_flower_tmplt_create() parses a flow_cls_offload template into a stack-local struct mlxsw_sp_acl_rule_info purely to compute rulei.values.elusage. Parsing can acquire port range registers via mlxsw_sp_flower_parse_ports_range(), but since this rulei never goes through mlxsw_sp_acl_rulei_destroy(), those registers were never released, including through chain template deletion.

Factor out of mlxsw_sp_acl_rulei_destroy() the code to actually release the necessary resources and call from mlxsw_sp_flower_tmplt_create() to plug the leak.

The issue was found during a review of Wentao Liang's patch referenced below.

Source: NVD