# 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-2026-98555"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:22.631Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:38.202Z"
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-2026-98555"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98555.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98555"
title: "llc: fix skb UAF and leaks on llc_mac_hdr_init() failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nllc: fix skb UAF and leaks on llc_mac_hdr_init() failure\n\nIn llc_conn_ac_resend_i_xxx_x_set_0_or_send_rr(), if llc_mac_hdr_init()\nfails, kfree_skb(skb) is called instead of kfree_skb(nskb). This leaks\nthe newly allocated nskb, reads from the freed skb via LLC_I_GET_NR(pdu),\nand double-frees skb when llc_conn_state_process() drops its reference.\n\nIn llc_sap_action_send_xid_r() and llc_sap_action_send_test_r(), nskb is\nleaked if llc_mac_hdr_init() returns an error.\n\nFree nskb in all three error paths."
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