{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98438 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-98438 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 18 Oct 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-98438 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-98438 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 18 Oct 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-98438 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-2026-98438/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98438/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-98438","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98438/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-98438","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2026-98438","GHSA-232g-622w-prrg","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-98438"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker can read uninitialized kernel memory via crafted MPTCP packets, potentially exposing sensitive data.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"information_disclosure"},"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\nmptcp: options: fix uninit-value in mptcp_write_data_fin\n\nWhen sending a DATA_FIN without data, and because the DATA_FIN occupies\n1 octet of the connection-level sequence space [1], it is then required\nto add a DSS mapping with specific values.\n\nIf the checksum has been negotiated, it also needs to be computed, and\nincluded in the outgoing packet, and thus the initial csum data needs to\nbe reset to 0 as well. This is no longer the case since commit\ncfcceb7a39fc (\"tcp: shrink per-packet memset in __tcp_transmit_skb()\"),\nbecause the whole ext_copy structure is no longer zeroed by default.\n\nThis seems to be the only case where use_map is changed and set\nafterwards, so initialising the csum field only in this case, along with\nother fields for this specific case.","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":"mptcp: options: fix uninit-value in mptcp_write_data_fin","id":"CVE-2026-98438","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"information_disclosure","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"smb/server: cancel async requests when closing connection","id":"CVE-2026-98439"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"media: qcom: iris: fix runtime PM reference leaks","id":"CVE-2026-98437"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-10-18","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":"An attacker can read uninitialized kernel memory via crafted MPTCP packets, potentially exposing sensitive data.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-98438/"}