CVE-2026-98933 json
usb: hub: use shorter 120ms post resume hold for SS root hubs
published 19d ago modified 12d ago also EUVD-2026-108905
- cvss
- —
- not scored
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: hub: use shorter 120ms post resume hold for SS root hubs
Holding a USB3 hub PM runtime reference for 200ms at hub resume triggers an AMD platform issue. Users running Android adb report crashes after adb has been polling and waking up the USB subsystem once a second for some time. Vendors are working on a solution. Disabling USB runtime PM is one way to prevent this issue, but it is also proven that reducing the hold time to 120ms in resume also mitigates it. See Link for more details.
Reducing the hold time to 120ms for the USB3 roothub is in itself a valid change and optimization, as the current 200ms is excessive: a root hub has no upstream suspended hub whose wake propagation needs to be accounted for, but still need some time for USB3 link training to complete.
Keep the 200ms hold for external hubs that commit 8f5b7e2bec1c ("usb: hub: fix detection of high tier USB3 devices behind suspended hubs") is intended for.
Patch / fix
- Linux Linux 5.5, 5.10.273, 5.15.224, 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.113, 6.16, 7.3
- linux Debian 13 6.12.113-1
- linux Debian 14 7.2.10-1
debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98933
- linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-149.149
- linux Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-43.43
- linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1069.74
- linux-aws Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.18
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1073.81
- linux-gcp Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1017.19
- linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1068.77
- linux-gke Ubuntu 26.04 LTS 7.0.0-1010.11
ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98933
Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0
- kernel-source Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1
- kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-159998.55.1.159998.21.42
- kernel-64kb SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-syms SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-azure SLE Module for Public Cloud 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
- kernel-source SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.53.90.1
suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:24550-1SUSE-SU-2026:5091-1
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/ff21323b74a876c54b1ebe9e5f8ba5abc7e07fd3 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/73d4fbc496935ccaffba15ca5ec33660c2b587fb commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/86e0baedd55fca30081fcd858ab336dfc0f1cc09 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4df763ba3c4fdd1d9256f7a75a17ab7c5e31db6 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/2dc82d6a12050c2c678a328cd29837beb367df7d commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e9545dd8bc62596b2a20966be41f39879ea7c8d0 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d7c4a49b41583266e1456d40f37966029f61dab9 commit
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/29480b05e6e226594dc11ccf2a036fbd5cdd0e42 commit
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What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2026-98933 updated cvss 4.7
kernel: usb: hub: use shorter 120ms post resume hold for SS root hubs
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 moreaffected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +82 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-selftests-internal Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8not affected: vulnerable code not present
Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf
Exploit prediction
0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).
Affected products
- Linux Linux
Classification
- Technology feeds
References
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/ff21323b74a876c54b1ebe9e5f8ba5abc7e07fd3
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/73d4fbc496935ccaffba15ca5ec33660c2b587fb
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/86e0baedd55fca30081fcd858ab336dfc0f1cc09
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e4df763ba3c4fdd1d9256f7a75a17ab7c5e31db6
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/2dc82d6a12050c2c678a328cd29837beb367df7d
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/e9545dd8bc62596b2a20966be41f39879ea7c8d0
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/d7c4a49b41583266e1456d40f37966029f61dab9
- git.kernel.org /stable/c/29480b05e6e226594dc11ccf2a036fbd5cdd0e42
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2026-98933
- NVD CVE-2026-98933
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