CVE record · CVE-2026-98493

net: ipconfig: bound DHCP option construction

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 11th 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 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 to before e0a221cec0e0ee437680ae0314a4b166509442c5 git
  • affected 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 to before ca811550b9fa87e02845b4a332d194c2304d933f git
  • affected 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 to before d8016c82acdd7eaa462e1f38a962b15d8c6a650b git
  • affected 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 to before 38a6a118260ebfc82d0c653194d616bdfbd236ac git
  • affected 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 to before abcba6f080c63e403037ecdffde43170d242376a git
  • affected 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 to before 24e79508b237dd2a69bc6fb6ac5cf7f126178307 git
  • affected 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 to before cbaad2922bd5d4d303055ae9afecc8999e6b40c9 git
  • affected 130c0f47fdf9c533deb1136cad5136f6cb7020f0 to before e47a1958e12abc3a17b5231a4f21c8f1bf662e08 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.36
  • unaffected before 2.6.36 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.273 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.224 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.191 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 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-2026-98493
CNA
Linux
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
30 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 0.0021, the 11th 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

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