CVE-2026-98078MediumMicrosoft CVSS 4.6CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-98078

Published
September 28, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products4

  • azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.159.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl3 kernel 6.6.161.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
  • azl4 kernel 6.18.50-1.5.azl4 on Azure Linux 4.0

✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates

2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.

KB articleUpdateFixed build
—Security Update—
—Security Update0:6.18.57-1.1.azl4

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-98078

EchelonGraph score
4.4 MEDIUM
CISA KEV
Not listed
Fix status
A fix is available — apply it.

Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ipvs: fix reversed sequence option serialization hton_seq() expects the host-order source first and the unaligned network-order destination second. The version 1 sync sender passes these arguments in reverse for both sequence blocks. This leaves 24 bytes of the kmalloc-backed message unwritten. It may disclose stale heap data and replace the live connection sequence state with values read from the buffer. Pass the connection sequence state as the source and the message payload as the destination for both blocks.

Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-98078, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).

🔗 References (2)