# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98950"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:09.890Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T12:19:09.890Z"
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-2026-98950"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98950.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98950"
title: "flow_dissector: avoid u16 truncation of hlen in bpf_flow_dissect()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nflow_dissector: avoid u16 truncation of hlen in bpf_flow_dissect()\n\nbpf_flow_dissect() sanitizes the offsets returned by the BPF program\nwith clamp_t(u16, ..., hlen).\n\nIf hlen is bigger than 65535, the upper bound is truncated before\nthe comparison. For instance, with hlen == 65536, both nhoff and\nthoff are forced to zero, even if the program returned sane values.\n\nThis is the same class of bug as the one fixed in commit 99bda1ecbd56\n(\"flow_dissector: avoid u16 truncation of skb-\u003elen when computing\nthoff\"). That fix does not cover the BPF path, because\n__skb_flow_dissect() returns early when a BPF flow dissector\nhandles the packet.\n\nstruct bpf_flow_keys stores nhoff and thoff as u16, so cap hlen\nto U16_MAX before clamping.\n\nFound by sashiko while reviewing the commit above."
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