CVE-2026-98078

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: fix reversed sequence option serialization hton_seq() expects the host-order source first and the unaligned network-order destination second. The version 1 sync sender passes these arguments in reverse for both sequence blocks. This leaves 24 bytes of the kmalloc-backed message unwritten. It may disclose stale heap data and replace the live connection sequence state with values read from the buffer. Pass the connection sequence state as the source and the message payload as the destination for both blocks.

CVSS 3.1

4.4CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-125

Published

2026-09-25

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• linux:linux_kernel

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/524599714558da83747c04952d378155c69f5b6b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/677ff8ab30a663cde984d8afe86465fd0d81aeef
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae38b2ae16f709c0193e1b4340bde26ef3e2687d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b04578b74f2d3755548fe9e829e3b2a6c6f966a1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbc68ba258a4eb0a2ca3b3a105550801aa8b00b0

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