{"cve":"CVE-2026-98495","nvd":{"published":"2026-10-18T16:17:00.483","modified":"2026-10-19T10:19:01.867","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: arp: terminate device name before lookup\n\nThe ARP ioctl copies a user-provided struct arpreq into a stack object. Its\narp_dev field may contain IFNAMSIZ bytes without a NUL terminator.\n\nSuch input is passed to dev_get_by_name_rcu() or __dev_get_by_name(), where\nstrcmp() can read past the end of the stack object when a matching\nalternative interface name exists.\n\nTerminate the field before the lookup to prevent the out-of-bounds read.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b08c5c3ac27c9ff91c5309f4a32b4e91ce2263b","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35e716a70733472ede300540082d64c33bf3b4c9","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/414bbad9928598904313299ac9e037a73f520be1","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47107491b48ceef0a2faa7a010cfa961f211ef9f","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7389757d88f54237951d7497d9c4dae7cc6d64be"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T23:00:53.604569364+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-98495","score":0.00216,"percentile":0.11952,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}