CVE record · CVE-2026-98485

netfilter: ip6t_rt: fix zero-address non-strict match out-of-bounds read

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:16 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 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 959d1829d1ce8b91b435b24a923b51bcc8897090 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before fe336bab13834394320997de8b16ca4a913b4f13 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 5a54f8b7f7fe207a5c14713015a5820588faf1ad git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before b89249819a7d6698bed152feafd3bc6c08489d15 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before dd55c0ea87bf70e4e4b3b683acd29ef981335b26 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 191239b0939692e92459d8d32cad14247fa93f89 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before d9cf4ac6f326330e1fe4d95671d36a6ff3593f64 git
  • affected 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to before 82313c169eddc02b1bf5ba6b427803e272d3ec42 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.12
  • unaffected before 2.6.12 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 6.18.55 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.9 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98485
CNA
Linux
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
24 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.1 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 8 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 18 Oct 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.