CVE record · CVE-2026-98255

tcp: exclude old ACKs from tcp fast path

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:45 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 31770e34e43d6c8dee129bfee77e56c34e61f0e5 to before 07cacab90290f795bad2e566790f4ba8e84cdf5f git
  • affected 31770e34e43d6c8dee129bfee77e56c34e61f0e5 to before 6eb9b697f50b73b9684e466c1e97f4ca8e947a59 git
  • affected 31770e34e43d6c8dee129bfee77e56c34e61f0e5 to before b86e1e5a4bbcbbccde8b7a3d3486604b581f6628 git
  • affected 31770e34e43d6c8dee129bfee77e56c34e61f0e5 to before 1c8448db5cf35a13d82b0c9004ffdb49358883e7 git
  • affected 31770e34e43d6c8dee129bfee77e56c34e61f0e5 to before 8309dc2cc360056aa9cd2acfbfc25930798c3b66 git
  • affected 31770e34e43d6c8dee129bfee77e56c34e61f0e5 to before ff037920c688ae6ca1153fec01e90e6782712455 git
  • affected 31770e34e43d6c8dee129bfee77e56c34e61f0e5 to before 8205ac5ddb42a1843fa8d6a8c295b5c7f4f8c6ed git
  • affected 31770e34e43d6c8dee129bfee77e56c34e61f0e5 to before f81e6c3fb06327bc49cdd6e559845293ba06a704 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.14
  • unaffected before 4.14 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.112 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.54 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.8 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98255
CNA
Linux
Published
6 Oct 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 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 10 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 6 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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