Google Pauses OSS Product Bug Bounty Rewards After Surge in Invalid Automated Reports

Google has stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its bug bounty program for its open-source software. The change, in effect since October 1, means researchers can no longer submit security flaws in the code of projects such as Go, Angular, and Protocol Buffers there for a reward...

CVE-2026-98369

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xfrm: add missing rcureadlock, skbdstforce and devhold for xfrmtransreinject syzbot reported a suspicious RCU usage warning in ip6pktdrop: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage in ip6pktdrop include/net/addrconf.h:389 suspicious...

CVE-2026-98360

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rxe: insert mcg into mcgtree only after rxemcastadd succeeds rxegetmcg publishes a newly allocated multicast group in rxe-mcgtree before programming the backing Ethernet multicast address with rxemcastadd, which runs outside...

CVE-2026-98358

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/iser: reject a remote invalidation of an unregistered direction A write command whose data is sent entirely as immediate data is not registered. iserregmemfastreg takes the DMA key path and leaves rdmaregISERDIROUT.desc at NUL...

CVE-2026-98342

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: wait for RCU readers before releasing dmadevice dmaissuependingall walks the dmadevicelist with listforeachentryrcu under rcureadlock. dmadevicerelease unlinks the device with listdelrcu and then calls...

CVE-2026-98328

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: wifi: mac80211: add HE 6 GHz capability in the scan elems len The HE 6 GHz Band Capability element is in the probe request for every band if 6 GHz is supported, so add the size to scanieslen. Otherwise, building probe request...

CVE-2026-98320

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released nfctput releases the ct-ext area inmediately, the rcu typesafe semantics also allow to refer to the wrong conntrack from the flowtable datapath. Hold reference on ...

CVE-2026-98312

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: 6fire: fix OOB write from device-reported iso length usb6firepcminurbhandler sizes each outgoing isochronous packet as actuallength - 4 / innanalog buffer, a 4832-byte object from kcallocPCMMAXPACKETSIZE, PCMNPACKETSPERURB...

CVE-2026-98313

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/msm/dp: skip PUSHIDLE when the link was never enabled msmdpdisplayatomicenable returns early when link training fails, leaving -poweron false and the main link down. msmdpdisplayatomicdisable nevertheless writes...

CVE-2026-98300

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: Don't call skbcloneandcharger for closed listener in tcpv6dorcv. tcpv6dorcv no longer calls skbcloneandcharger for TCPLISTEN since commit 073d89808c06 "net: fix data-races around sk-skforwardalloc". However, there is still a...

CVE-2026-98299

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: tcp: do not let tcprmem be set below 4096 We can hit a division by zero crash in tcprcvbufgrow and tcprcvspaceadjust: divide error: 0000 1 PREEMPT SMP RIP: 0010:tcprcvbufgrow+0x187/0x450 net/ipv4/tcpinput.c:939 ... grow =...

CVE-2026-98296

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: btintelpcie: validate TX skb length in sendsync btintelpciepreparetx copies skb-len bytes into a fixed BTINTELPCIEBUFFERSIZE 4096 DMA slot via an unchecked memcpy. Oversized packets are currently rejected only in...

CVE-2026-98298

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: mmppdma: fix wrong sg length in mmppdmaprepslavesg In mmppdmaprepslavesg, foreachsg iterates the scatterlist putting each entry into 'sg', but the entry length is read from 'sgl' the list head instead of 'sg' the curre...

CVE-2026-98286

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dropmonitor: use timershutdownsync to prevent timer rearming during teardown In dropmonitor teardown paths netdmtraceoffset, netdmhwmonitorstop, and error unwind paths in netdmtraceonset and netdmhwmonitorstart, per-CPU timers ar...

CVE-2026-98287

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pppoatm: ensure a writable skb header and linear data In pppoatmsend, LLC encapsulation checks whether there is sufficient headroom for the 4-byte LLC header, but does not ensure that the skb header is writable. Normal transmit...

CVE-2026-98269

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: btrfs: abort transaction on failure to update inode for hole punching and reflinking If we fail to update the inode we error out without aborting the transaction, which can result in a persistent inconsistency if after the failur...

CVE-2026-98271

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: skbuff: do not leave stale header offsets after pskbcarve pskbcarveinsideheader and pskbcarveinsidenonlinear remove the first bytes of a packet and reallocate skb-head. All the headers that were present before the operation...

CVE-2026-98265

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ALSA: usb-audio: Clamp implicit feedback packet count to URB capacity dataepsetparams allocates each data URB for exactly u-packets isochronous frames, so urb-isoframedesc has u-packets slots and ctx-packets is the driver's only...

CVE-2026-98259

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/dax: check zero or empty entry before converting xarray entry Calling daxtofolio with empty entry causes kernel panic below when booting a VM with DAX enabled storage. This patch checks empty entry before calling daxtofolio on...

CVE-2026-98254

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: swiotlb: use the adjusted address for the highmem page lookup swiotlbbounce reads the page frame number from the slot's recorded origaddr, then advances origaddr by tlboffset to reach the address the caller asked about. The highm...