Critical Linux Kernel TCP Vulnerability CVE-2026-98432 Impacts Major Distributions

A critical Linux kernel TCP vulnerability (CVE-2026-98432) with a 9.8 CVSS score impacts Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and other distributions. An AI-generated exploit was developed to enable remote code execution without credentials.

A flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale.

Anthropic said on October 27 that its AI model wrote an exploit that uses the flaw to let a remote attacker with no credentials run commands as root on Linux servers with a

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