CVE record · CVE-2026-98320

netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0014 · 3rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 6 Oct 2026, 08:46 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 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a to before 93ff1594be1aad4da364462dd8db050ebcfda2de git
  • affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a to before eed6997e8dc40593a539fcc722e7ed51b18db86c git
  • affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a to before 61c6688be282277c6e91ab286a7acd0ae8681ac6 git
  • affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a to before a43cd2b67b91e943273c913237a7a88c50cdcfbc git
  • affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a to before 8274cdc5f9c57e17ed77fc4ba76212536c840f25 git
  • affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a to before 12c1ac230f4ca16e0017b62a963ab75e0b48074f git
  • affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a to before d9e6175a3ee48209ee65f294fc567b4e16b29b74 git
  • affected 0ff90b6c20340e57616a51ae1a1bf18156d6638a to before e75a9fa1d44bcbd66ea02e8781bcca6ea4076e0d git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.16
  • unaffected before 4.16 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-2026-98320
CNA
Linux
Published
6 Oct 2026
Updated
19 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 0.0014, the 3rd 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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