CVE-2026-98495 Affecting kernel-uek-devel package, versions <0:5.15.0-326.222.4.el8uek


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-KERNELUEKDEVEL-22158291
  • published3 Nov 2026
  • disclosed18 Oct 2026

Introduced: 18 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-98495  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 kernel-uek-devel to version 0:5.15.0-326.222.4.el8uek or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2026-500574.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-uek-devel package and not the kernel-uek-devel package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: arp: terminate device name before lookup

The ARP ioctl copies a user-provided struct arpreq into a stack object. Its arp_dev field may contain IFNAMSIZ bytes without a NUL terminator.

Such input is passed to dev_get_by_name_rcu() or __dev_get_by_name(), where strcmp() can read past the end of the stack object when a matching alternative interface name exists.

Terminate the field before the lookup to prevent the out-of-bounds read.

CVSS Base Scores

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