CVE-2026-98276

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-06. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp()

sk->sk_flags must only be changed while holding the socket lock, because sock_set_flag() and sock_reset_flag() use non atomic operations (__set_bit() and __clear_bit()).

sock_gettstamp() is one of the last places where a bit of sk->sk_flags is changed from a syscall without owning the socket lock, through sock_enable_timestamp(sk, SOCK_TIMESTAMP).

sk_set_memalloc() and sk_clear_memalloc() also change sk->sk_flags without the socket lock, but their callers (nbd, iscsi_tcp, nvme-tcp, sunrpc, wireguard) need a careful audit, this will be addressed in a separate patch.

Jungwoo Lee and Wongi Lee reported an UDP socket use-after-free caused by this bug: a SIOCGSTAMPNS_NEW ioctl racing with bind() can cancel the SOCK_RCU_FREE bit that udp_lib_get_port() just set, because both threads perform a read-modify-write on the same word.

CPU 0 (bind) CPU 1 (SIOCGSTAMPNS_NEW) -------------------------------- ---------------------------- read sk_flags = F read sk_flags = F compute F | BIT(SOCK_RCU_FREE) compute F | BIT(SOCK_TIMESTAMP) store F | BIT(SOCK_RCU_FREE) sk_add_node_rcu(sk, ...) store F | BIT(SOCK_TIMESTAMP)

After the lost update, SOCK_RCU_FREE is clear while the socket is visible to lockless UDP receive lookups. sk_destruct() then frees the socket immediately instead of waiting for a RCU grace period, while the receive path still holds a reference-less pointer to it:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ipv4_pktinfo_prepare+0x30/0x410 Read of size 8 at addr ffff888008806610 by task exploit/207 CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 207 Comm: exploit Not tainted 6.12.95+ #1 ipv4_pktinfo_prepare+0x30/0x410 udp_queue_rcv_one_skb+0x51c/0x1180 udp_unicast_rcv_skb+0x109/0x350 ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x14b/0x310 ip_local_deliver_finish+0x29d/0x390 ip_local_deliver+0x24d/0x2a0

Only grab the socket lock when SOCK_TIMESTAMP has to be set, to keep the common case lockless.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
35
EG Risk 35/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.8 of 10.
Exploitation0.1% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
2nd
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

October 6, 2026

Last Modified

October 7, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ed55f3dbef4f4adfe65eb03b0c35c53229a8490
Web page

net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/899650bbf985b7bfd2a7b808357df9b16e6d6959
Web page

net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d9f96bc2d822501f84d1caa6275a2c6b316ca2c4
Web page

net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f73253add8365d0dad0a4f421acaa8c21d20cef
Web page

net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/17b2a1eb97fdb2a2cbaeab3b146b26797ea9311f
Web page

net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3b12d3967e96f1b7b977d9fc352ae29a1b299a82
Web page

net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88c804847dd87dc613b771b392ccecdb94725032
Web page

net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18899e2e4023369a8f7739c2255a59a9748d8d17

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-98276(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (360 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (183 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (181 versions)
  • every version up to 7.2.8-1: fixed in 7.2.8-1
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Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 38× in last 7d / 49× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  2. 2026-10-13 03:57 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-13 03:57 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-13 03:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  5. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  6. 2026-10-12 14:38 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-12 00:18 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-12 00:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  9. 2026-10-11 19:10 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-11 16:25 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 13:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  12. 2026-10-11 13:37 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 11:44 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 11:44 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-11 11:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  16. 2026-10-10 23:13 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-10 23:13 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-10 23:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  19. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  20. 2026-10-10 10:41 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-10 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  22. 2026-10-09 22:10 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-09 22:10 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-09 22:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  25. 2026-10-09 20:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
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  1. 2026-10-09 09:36 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-09 09:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  3. 2026-10-08 21:02 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-08 21:02 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-08 21:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  6. 2026-10-08 17:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  7. 2026-10-08 08:31 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-08 08:31 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-08 08:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  10. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 2nd percentile
  11. 2026-10-07 20:00 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-07 20:00 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-07 20:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 7.8
  14. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-07 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc
  17. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 7.8 HIGH
  18. 2026-10-07 06:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc
  19. 2026-10-07 06:56 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.8 · severity → HIGH
  20. 2026-10-06 15:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 7th percentile
  21. 2026-10-06 09:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qgp7-2j87-wmwc
  22. 2026-10-06 09:28 UTCNVD update
  23. 2026-10-06 08:54 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-06 08:52 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-98276?
CVE-2026-98276 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 6, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: lock the socket in sock_gettstamp() sk->sk_flags must only be changed while holding the socket lock, because socksetflag() and sockresetflag() use non atomic operations (setbit() and clearbit()). sockgettstamp() is one of the…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-98276 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-98276 was published on October 6, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 7, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-98276 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-98276 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (2nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-98276?
CVE-2026-98276 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-98276?
A fix for CVE-2026-98276 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-98276 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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