CVE record · CVE-2026-98257

rds: ib: use rds_conn_drop() on protocol version mismatch

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0050 · 43rd 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 f147dd9ecabf23fd63d2562ffe64252a0453ecde to before 424019be3f637da76b74f44a40034669acbb166f git
  • affected f147dd9ecabf23fd63d2562ffe64252a0453ecde to before 14fb90067d13f4494cff0f03243fae3cf2911cbc git
  • affected f147dd9ecabf23fd63d2562ffe64252a0453ecde to before 344c72a0bc2703a6de4918ed935850e07dae3af2 git
  • affected f147dd9ecabf23fd63d2562ffe64252a0453ecde to before b5c9f2951d330d4a198a64d6e60f79b4bd6ef078 git
  • affected f147dd9ecabf23fd63d2562ffe64252a0453ecde to before d392b16acd0908f077289aad8bba066ff16de336 git
  • affected f147dd9ecabf23fd63d2562ffe64252a0453ecde to before 65ca0a5037152a5a80b8fe6aac80eb80458be573 git
  • affected f147dd9ecabf23fd63d2562ffe64252a0453ecde to before 7d8c22cb2cb1efb5e830a4545c76abf7b35cc2e8 git
  • affected f147dd9ecabf23fd63d2562ffe64252a0453ecde to before f97d8c7bab7843631206a114986c9059da03efeb git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.37
  • unaffected before 2.6.37 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-2026-98257
CNA
Linux
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0050, the 43rd 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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