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Appears in 2 stories · Last updated Nov 8, 2026
Patched kernels in production since October 23
A tenant on a shared cloud server can send a crafted network packet and read host kernel memory. In a lab, researchers chained that access into code execution inside the Firecracker process, but only with an unpatched kernel and no jailer.
Updated 3 days ago
Moved patched kernels to production repositories on November 2
Linux kernels have carried a race condition in their IPv4 TCP code since October 2015, when the faulty commit landed for version 4.4. The kernel's CVE team published it as CVE-2026-98432 on October 15, scoring it 9.8 out of 10.
Updated Nov 1
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