# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98239"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:10.611Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:10.911Z"
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-2026-98239"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98239.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98239"
title: "net: lan743x: fix RX checksum use-after-free"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: lan743x: fix RX checksum use-after-free\n\nlan743x_rx_process_buffer() adds each non-first receive buffer to the\nhead skb's frag_list.  On the last descriptor, lan743x_rx_trim_skb()\nlinearizes the head and frees the fragment skb metadata.\n\nThe checksum-success path then writes ip_summed through the local skb\npointer, which still points to the final fragment.  This causes a\nuse-after-free write when a packet spans more than one receive buffer.\n\nSet ip_summed on the surviving head skb instead.  Multi-buffer receive\ncan occur after a live MTU increase because existing ring entries keep\ntheir old buffer size until they are replenished.\n\nA KUnit test invoking lan743x_rx_process_buffer() with a two-buffer\npacket produced a one-byte KASAN use-after-free write before this change.\nThe same test passed after the change.  The driver object also builds\nwith W=1.  This was not tested on physical LAN743x hardware."
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