# 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-2026-98495"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:16:24.810Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:20:32.370Z"
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-2026-98495"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98495.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98495"
title: "net: arp: terminate device name before lookup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: arp: terminate device name before lookup\n\nThe ARP ioctl copies a user-provided struct arpreq into a stack object. Its\narp_dev field may contain IFNAMSIZ bytes without a NUL terminator.\n\nSuch input is passed to dev_get_by_name_rcu() or __dev_get_by_name(), where\nstrcmp() can read past the end of the stack object when a matching\nalternative interface name exists.\n\nTerminate the field before the lookup to prevent the out-of-bounds read."
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