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CVE record · CVE-2026-98073

net: Remove conflicting altnames for dying netns in __dev_change_net_namespace().

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:24 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 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to before 54772bf503dd0e81e8b8db537fee6946de81e717 git
  • affected 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to before 119ac1716705af17fb74b3e33058a938a87eecd4 git
  • affected 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to before a29ea5b5034654aaaa4aadd771f48c01abfd2dfa git
  • affected 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to before ac6631843269e6a9b2164e393b7f729328711d78 git
  • affected 36fbf1e52bd3ff8a5cb604955eedfc9350c2e6cc to before debac3a20dec524a59625cf10fa2f18571127824 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.5
  • unaffected before 5.5 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.114 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-2026-98073
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
21 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0016, the 5th 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.