CVE record · CVE-2026-97984

net: ipv6: Fix UDP length overflow with PMTU discover and big MTU

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:23 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 427faee167bce4ccb0b22f6815a9ac509e31d4c3 to before 1dd562f3019019ffdf4b396570613053facda9ee git
  • affected 427faee167bce4ccb0b22f6815a9ac509e31d4c3 to before 1d56a00ec91f2885c64ea5b8cea18cb746b91bbb git
  • affected 427faee167bce4ccb0b22f6815a9ac509e31d4c3 to before ce66352d3eb21825410af8b91db7cc4bb8e22c98 git
  • affected 427faee167bce4ccb0b22f6815a9ac509e31d4c3 to before e01b7c176d9af2b7c22bb3fe12cf9a7904f99fdc git
  • affected 427faee167bce4ccb0b22f6815a9ac509e31d4c3 to before 0ae10b6be49b425827659b23bcce498f80eb7182 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.15
  • unaffected before 5.15 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.111 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.7 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-97984
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 25 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.