CVE-2026-98147: Linux

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: printk: Don't WARN on kthread_run failure. Since __kthread_create_on_node() returns -EINTR upon SIGKILL, we should not use WARN_ON() in order to catch kthread_run() failure.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 6.12, before 7.2.7 (fixed in 7.2.7)

Published 2026-09-25. Last modified 2026-09-30.