CVE-2026-98078

medium

Description

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.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1c9f9446d3eaae323f1689f9e5de3b1ad6e47ec

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de6cc6ec7932bc530f2bb92005dac9123d50659c

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b04578b74f2d3755548fe9e829e3b2a6c6f966a1

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/524599714558da83747c04952d378155c69f5b6b

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-25

Updated: 2026-09-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00201