# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98233"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:06.533Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:05.070Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98233"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98233.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98233"
title: "net/packet: clear RX owner on VNET header error"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/packet: clear RX owner on VNET header error\n\nCommit 61fad6816fc1 (\"net/packet: tpacket_rcv: avoid a producer race\ncondition\") added rx_owner_map and made tpacket_rcv() claim a V1 or V2\nring slot before converting the virtio-net header.  If the conversion\nfails, the drop path leaves the slot claimed.\n\nWith a one-frame TPACKET_V2 ring, an unsupported UDP GSO packet leaves\nthe only slot unavailable, so the ring also drops the next valid packet.\n\nClear the ownership bit on this error path.  TPACKET_V3 already clears\nits block state here."
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