CVE record · CVE-2026-98850

net/packet: prevent TX_RING byte count overflow

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0020 · 10th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:50 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 69e3c75f4d541a6eb151b3ef91f34033cb3ad6e1 to before 1e6ee93cea4b77253b1b81eb5759899f959ebee3 git
  • affected 69e3c75f4d541a6eb151b3ef91f34033cb3ad6e1 to before 70fefff0801d4c5405e515592d1e7ad1351530cd git
  • affected 69e3c75f4d541a6eb151b3ef91f34033cb3ad6e1 to before 4848c175b5984e6358bcca794ac1dee4d527efcc git
  • affected 69e3c75f4d541a6eb151b3ef91f34033cb3ad6e1 to before ae169d318d5d23bac76ece90a7e2b5cb760ed043 git
  • affected 69e3c75f4d541a6eb151b3ef91f34033cb3ad6e1 to before be12b221c0301111eeb023be04add3c6ad7c21fe git
  • affected 69e3c75f4d541a6eb151b3ef91f34033cb3ad6e1 to before 69ca64bbb528898916f309552053c32a04a36ebc git
  • affected 69e3c75f4d541a6eb151b3ef91f34033cb3ad6e1 to before 9fd63d284e251332f4874ef9023cde472f315f86 git
  • affected 69e3c75f4d541a6eb151b3ef91f34033cb3ad6e1 to before 2cf81fc9505b148b1b70068303ea6ea4b1212403 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 2.6.31
  • unaffected before 2.6.31 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 6.12.113 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.56 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.10 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98850
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 0.0020, the 10th percentile, on 6 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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