CVE-2026-98917

Published Oct 23, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: Increase kernel stack size to 32kb For 64-bit Linux kernels, increase the default kernel stack size (THREAD_SIZE_ORDER) to 32 kB, in order to avoid kernel crashes which have been triggered recently when building the debian vtk9 package with gcc 17: stackcheck: kworker/u128:0 will most likely overflow kernel stack (sp:179a83af0, stk bottom-top:179a80000-179a84000) Kernel panic - not syncing: low stack detected by irq handler - check messages CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 30760 Comm: kworker/u128:0 Tainted: G W 6.18.46-dirty #1 NONE Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: 9000/800/rp3440 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-259:0) Backtrace: [<000000004022f050>] show_stack+0x70/0x90 [<000000004022378c>] dump_stack_lvl+0x124/0x190 [<000000004022382c>] dump_stack+0x34/0x48 [<000000004020212c>] vpanic+0x204/0x648 [<00000000402025c4>] panic+0x54/0x58 [<0000000040232230>] do_cpu_irq_mask+0x3f8/0x440 [<0000000040227070>] intr_return+0x0/0xc

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2026-98917? +
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: parisc: Increase kernel stack size to 32kb For 64-bit Linux kernels, increase the default kernel stack size (THREAD_SIZE_ORDER) to 32 kB, in order to avoid kernel crashes which have been triggered recently when building the debian vtk9 package with gcc 17: stackcheck: kworker/u128:0 will most likely overflow kernel stack (sp:179a83af0, stk bottom-top:179a80000-179a84000) Kernel panic - not syncing: low stack detected by irq handler - check messages CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 30760 Comm: kworker/u128:0 Tainted: G W 6.18.46-dirty #1 NONE Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: 9000/800/rp3440 Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-259:0) Backtrace: [<000000004022f050>] show_stack+0x70/0x90 [<000000004022378c>] dump_stack_lvl+0x124/0x190 [<000000004022382c>] dump_stack+0x34/0x48 [<000000004020212c>] vpanic+0x204/0x648 [<00000000402025c4>] panic+0x54/0x58 [<0000000040232230>] do_cpu_irq_mask+0x3f8/0x440 [<0000000040227070>] intr_return+0x0/0xc
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