CVE record · CVE-2026-98271

net: skbuff: do not leave stale header offsets after pskb_carve()

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th 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 6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a to before 75e4a3e62531738c124c8555a626426fca29d392 git
  • affected 6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a to before bff8a8e53a6d290bc2777bde36d3cb6317b8463d git
  • affected 6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a to before 12929ed66a5166177ef5f06d3da81e4f99993e90 git
  • affected 6fa01ccd883021105e9f8af7d04b9f156fa3494a to before a5117e1eccac6ee3bd4aed7cacf8ebcb6b3eb309 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.7
  • unaffected before 4.7 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-2026-98271
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 0.0017, the 6th 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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