CVE-2026-98724

Status: ReceivedUnscored—

Severity—Unscored

Exploitation probability0.20 %higher than 9% of CVEs

Active exploitationNonot in the CISA catalog

Public exploitNot knownno public code found

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

nvmet: pci-epf: reject too-short SGL segments

The host controls an SGL segment's length. A nonzero length smaller than one SGL descriptor makes nr_descs zero, so nvmet_pci_epf_get_sgl_segment() reads the type byte of sgls[-1] outside the allocated buffer. If that byte contains a segment descriptor type, the function also copies the preceding 16 bytes and returns a negative descriptor count.

The read was reproduced in 3/3 KASAN boots with only the host transfer mocked by a KUnit test:

Reject segments that cannot hold one descriptor before allocating or transferring their contents.

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report

  BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nvmet_pci_epf_get_sgl_segment
  Read of size 1 by task kunit_try_catch
  Call Trace:
   nvmet_pci_epf_get_sgl_segment
   nvmet_pci_epf_short_sgl_test
  Kernel panic - not syncing: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...

CVSS

NVD hasn't assigned a CVSS score to this CVE (common since the April 2026 policy change).

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.20 %
Percentile among all scored CVEs: 9
Score date: 10/20/2026

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

⚠ AI-inferred from the description — NVD hasn't analyzed this CVE yet, these aren't verified CPEs.

Linux — Linux Kernel^AI

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