# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98792"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:48:31.098Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:57:01.669Z"
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-2026-98792"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98792.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98792"
title: "netfilter: flowtable: generalize pending status bit"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnetfilter: flowtable: generalize pending status bit\n\nRename NF_FLOW_HW_PENDING to NF_FLOW_PENDING and use it to inhibit the\nflowtable GC worker until pending hw offload work has been completed.\n\nApparently, nf_flow_offload_stats() can schedule work to retrieve stats\nwhile the flow is being removed by GC.\n\nAnd this bit can also be used in a follow up patch to disable GC until\nthe flow has been fully added in both directions.\n\nRevert the reordering done in commit d644b23afe1e (\"netfilter:\nflowtable: publish HW_DEAD after worker is done\") to prevent a race\nbetween GC and hw offload handler."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"2c8897953f3b2ff5498f3f275708a742bfcdbc24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7e292f3c8c853f27a1af7eaf3428a0e76fe5fcc"},{"version":"2c8897953f3b2ff5498f3f275708a742bfcdbc24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d52b72f3aa68ad0536444e36530bda75070194c"},{"version":"2c8897953f3b2ff5498f3f275708a742bfcdbc24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4033e1a9262c57dfbfc594a591a50fcba63c531a"},{"version":"2c8897953f3b2ff5498f3f275708a742bfcdbc24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2cac45848d1cf31ed190db30f90ba8211e9a8ca"},{"version":"2c8897953f3b2ff5498f3f275708a742bfcdbc24","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7c549fb7eecd01fdba7c0d12c01da876ef8a3214"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.113","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.56","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.10","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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