CVE-2026-98021

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: reject oversized txqueuelen at netlink parse time rtnlcreatelink assigns IFLATXQLEN directly to dev-txqueuelen without going through netifchangetxqueuelen, so a device created with "ip link add ... txqueuelen 500000" bypasse...

CVE-2026-98021 net: reject oversized tx_queue_len at netlink parse time

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: reject oversized txqueuelen at netlink parse time rtnlcreatelink assigns IFLATXQLEN directly to dev-txqueuelen without going through netifchangetxqueuelen, so a device created with "ip link add ... txqueuelen 500000" bypasse...

CVE-2026-98021 net: reject oversized tx_queue_len at netlink parse time

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: reject oversized txqueuelen at netlink parse time rtnlcreatelink assigns IFLATXQLEN directly to dev-txqueuelen without going through netifchangetxqueuelen, so a device created with "ip link add ... txqueuelen 500000" bypasse...

CVE-2026-98021

The Linux kernel contains a vulnerability where rtnl_create_link() assigns IFLA_TXQLEN directly to dev->tx_queue_len without proper validation. This allows a device created with an oversized txqueuelen (e.g., 500000) to bypass the S16_MAX cap, leading to oversized ring allocations in pfifo_fas...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-98021

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - net: reject oversized txqueuelen at netlink parse time rtnlcreatelink assigns IFLATXQLEN directly to dev-txqueuelen without going through netifchangetxqueuelen,...