{"data":{"id":"4b64cb2c-cc6e-46e8-8b90-007acf470f62","title":"Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions","summary":"A Linux kernel TCP race condition, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, RHEL and other distributions. The kernel CVE team rates it 9.8, while Red Hat, Amazon, Oracle and SUSE score it between 5.9 and 8.1. Anthropic said its AI model wrote an exploit that lets an unauthenticated remote attacker run commands as root on servers with a multipath TCP listener.","solution":"Debian, Oracle Linux, SUSE and Amazon Linux have shipped fixed kernel packages for at least some kernels, including kernel6.12-6.12.113-138.209.amzn2023 and kernel-default 6.12.0-160000.40.1 or later for SUSE. Ubuntu and RHEL have not released a fixed kernel as of October 29; Red Hat says its fixes are deferred to a future update.","labels":["security","industry"],"sourceUrl":"https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/linux-kernel-tcp-flaw-with-98-cvss.html","publishedAt":"2026-10-29T15:57:05.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"medium","attackType":["other"],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedPackageNames":null,"affectedPackageRefs":null,"affectedVendors":["Anthropic"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["Anthropic AI model"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-5-5","classifierPromptVersion":"v4","summaryPromptVersion":"v2","headline":null,"headlinePromptVersion":null,"cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"epssCheckedAt":null,"kevDateAdded":null,"advisoryAliases":null,"affectedPackagesSource":null,"affectedPackagesCheckedAt":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-10-29T15:57:05.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"advanced","impactType":["confidentiality","integrity","availability"],"aiComponentTargeted":null,"llmSpecific":false,"classifierConfidence":0.6,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}