CVE record · CVE-2026-98021

net: reject oversized tx_queue_len at netlink parse time

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th 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 38f7b870d4a6a5d3ec21557e849620cb7d032965 to before 26ee5f99ffe7ab98e635071290eff14192e9e34a git
  • affected 38f7b870d4a6a5d3ec21557e849620cb7d032965 to before 45ca9f59b6c7ea70e0a17054902b8a556913db34 git
  • affected 38f7b870d4a6a5d3ec21557e849620cb7d032965 to before 2fd0880f0272ec022906a05587fd91416ebecc38 git
  • affected 38f7b870d4a6a5d3ec21557e849620cb7d032965 to before a638a2625aa83160a394abe8e8b2e524a80c771b git
  • affected 38f7b870d4a6a5d3ec21557e849620cb7d032965 to before 1aa9e143bf51405665a793d4cc925e1c4f0c5922 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.23
  • unaffected before 2.6.23 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 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-2026-98021
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
21 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 0.0018, the 7th 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

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