CVE-2026-98320CriticalMicrosoft CVSS 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U

Microsoft security update for CVE-2026-98320

Published
October 7, 2026
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Microsoft's advisory

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🎯 Affected products2

  • azl3 kernel 6.6.157.1-1 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 Update6.6.158.1-1
—Security Update0:6.18.57-1.1.azl4

🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-98320

EchelonGraph score
7.8 HIGH
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: netfilter: flowtable: hold reference on ct until flow is released nf_ct_put() 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 ct until flow is released after rcu grace period. Add rcu_barrier() on module exit path, to ensure pending flow entries are release before module goes away.

Published by kernel.org, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-98320, 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)