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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98808"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:48:55.053Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:57:08.174Z"
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-2026-98808"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98808.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98808"
title: "net: systemport: Fix buffer overflow in bcm_sysport_get_stats()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: systemport: Fix buffer overflow in bcm_sysport_get_stats()\n\nWhen running on SYSTEMPORT Lite, certain statistics are unsupported and\nskipped during bcm_sysport_get_stats(). The variable 'j' tracks the\ncompacted index into the destination data buffer, whereas 'i' iterates\nover all elements in bcm_sysport_gstrings_stats.\n\nBecause the buffer allocated by ethtool is sized only according to\nbcm_sysport_get_sset_count(), storing values at data[i] instead of\ndata[j] writes past the allocated array bounds, leading to memory\ncorruption.\n\nFix this by writing to data[j] instead of data[i]."
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