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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98603"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:19:16.215Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:22:30.537Z"
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-2026-98603"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98603.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98603"
title: "ovpn: replace bind when clearing stale local source"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\novpn: replace bind when clearing stale local source\n\nThe UDP output fallback clears bind-\u003elocal in place when the remembered\nsource address is no longer usable. The bind is RCU-published and read\nlocklessly by concurrent TX, so an IPv6 reader can observe a torn\naddress.\n\nRetry the route lookup with source address autoselection without\nmodifying the bind. After a successful lookup, revalidate the bind and\nroute key under peer-\u003elock, reset the dst cache, and best-effort publish\na replacement bind with a wildcard local address.\n\nDo not cache the resolved dst when clearing the local source. Replacing\nthe source invalidates all per-CPU cache entries, while\ndst_cache_set_ip4 and dst_cache_set_ip6 update only the current CPU\nslot. The current packet can still use the resolved route; if bind\nallocation fails, a later cache miss retries the repair."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"08857b5ec5d91d83e69e40a36554a8c7557b7301","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c44a04722f7dae9a45a101b8e100931ab59f1c18"},{"version":"08857b5ec5d91d83e69e40a36554a8c7557b7301","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"72bd1bea37ea2c8553938f086bf48ccd2147dfe1"},{"version":"08857b5ec5d91d83e69e40a36554a8c7557b7301","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7d8104988f423572df1f3347ce578037b1043f34"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.16"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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