{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98278 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98278 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 6 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-98278 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98278 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 6 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98278 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98278/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98278/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98278","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98278/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98278","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98278","GHSA-6vfc-qfc9-vf68","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98278"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Linux kernel networking","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"A local high-privilege user can trigger a kernel warning and potential denial of service by configuring specific network tunnel routing loops.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() from the dev_fill_forward_path() loop check\n\nipip_fill_forward_path() and ip6_tnl_fill_forward_path() look up the\nroute to the tunnel's remote endpoint and set ctx-\u003edev to its device,\nwhich is the tunnel itself when that route resolves back to the tunnel.\ndev_fill_forward_path() then makes no progress and trips\nWARN_ON_ONCE(last_dev == ctx-\u003edev) as soon as a flowtable tries to\noffload a flow through the tunnel. That routing loop is a configuration\nany CAP_NET_ADMIN user can set up, and ip_tunnel_xmit() and\nip6_tnl_xmit() already treat it as a tx error, so remove the warning and\njust fail the walk, as commit 008e7a7c293b (\"net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE\nwhen accessing forward path array\") did for the path stack overflow.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"net: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() from the dev_fill_forward_path() loop check","id":"CVE-2026-98278","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"btrfs: handle lack of space when cleaning up verity items","id":"CVE-2026-98279"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"eth: fbnic: ring the doorbell if a burst ends in a drop","id":"CVE-2026-98277"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-10-06","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A local high-privilege user can trigger a kernel warning and potential denial of service by configuring specific network tunnel routing loops.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98278/"}