# 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-2026-98526"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:17:44.018Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:07.983Z"
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-2026-98526"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98526.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98526"
title: "llc: reserve device headroom for allocated frames"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nllc: reserve device headroom for allocated frames\n\nllc_alloc_frame() reserves link-layer headroom using the device type.\nThis is insufficient for stacked Ethernet devices such as VLAN devices,\nwhere vlan_dev_hard_header() pushes a VLAN header before the lower\ndevice's Ethernet header. An LLC response on such a device can\ntherefore underflow skb headroom in eth_header().\n\nUse LL_RESERVED_SPACE() to account for the device's actual required\nheadroom while preserving the existing LLC device-type check."
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