# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98370"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:46:54.981Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:18:22.245Z"
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-2026-98370"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98370.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98370"
title: "xfrm: fix compat ALLOCSPI request use-after-free"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxfrm: fix compat ALLOCSPI request use-after-free\n\nxfrm_state_netlink() builds the ALLOCSPI response with\ndump_one_state(), which already calls alloc_compat() with the response\nskb and header.\n\nxfrm_alloc_userspi() then calls alloc_compat() again, but passes the\noriginal request skb and its header. For a compat request, the\ntranslator therefore interprets the 228-byte compat xfrm_userspi_info\nas the 232-byte native layout and reads four bytes past the declared\npayload. It also publishes the translated child through the request's\nfrag_list.\n\nA multicast clone of the request shares skb_shared_info and can observe\nthat child. xfrm_user_rcv_msg() frees it after the request handler\nreturns, racing a compat receiver which may still be copying from it and\nresulting in a use-after-free.\n\nRemove the redundant conversion. The response keeps its correct compat\ntranslation from dump_one_state(), and no child is attached to the\ninbound request."
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