# 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-2026-98631"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:19:53.529Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:22:59.147Z"
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-2026-98631"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98631.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98631"
title: "xsk: Use a 32-bit compare in xsk_map_gen_lookup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxsk: Use a 32-bit compare in xsk_map_gen_lookup\n\nxsk_map_gen_lookup() loads a u32 key and compares it with max_entries\nusing BPF_JMP_IMM. BPF immediates are sign-extended to 64 bits, so a\nmax_entries value of 0x80000000 or higher becomes a threshold larger\nthan every zero-extended 32-bit key. An out-of-range index then skips\nthe bounds check and the generated lookup reads past xsk_map[].\n\nCompare with BPF_JMP32_IMM so the check stays in 32-bit unsigned range."
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