CVE-2026-89738 (GCVE-0-2026-89738)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:46 – Updated: 2026-10-30 12:32| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4037242c4f5ff77afe61bf07ca1e8a99490219e5 , < 2440ce54b8c4c8aa6963c181eb56164a466fbe1c
(git)
Affected: 4037242c4f5ff77afe61bf07ca1e8a99490219e5 , < 1674e34fe61ad3f5585dc833ba6bb6522912e6a5 (git) Affected: 4037242c4f5ff77afe61bf07ca1e8a99490219e5 , < 723d73b245843d4fff4c3f42e857c78c2b2d414e (git) Affected: 4037242c4f5ff77afe61bf07ca1e8a99490219e5 , < a2a602cb1e28d76a5398cec3fa21b0110385f501 (git) Affected: 4037242c4f5ff77afe61bf07ca1e8a99490219e5 , < 51a311eb97e91ce1aed3005cb71ccb2e30f8cce8 (git) Affected: 4037242c4f5ff77afe61bf07ca1e8a99490219e5 , < 557ef547d49ff5e6026a4d39bdd3113bd81d7688 (git) Affected: 4037242c4f5ff77afe61bf07ca1e8a99490219e5 , < c27d13ce4bab80fbdf6523928071b6c24b37606c (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
2.6.36
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.36 (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.224 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.191 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.160 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.