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Disclosed, Not Yet Exploited

The disclosure timeline is clean: researcher Xinyang Ge reported the flaw, Eric Dumazet authored the fix on October 1, and the kernel team published the CVE on October 15. As of November 1 there is no verified in-the-wild exploitation and the flaw is not in CISA’s KEV catalog — disclosed, patchable, but not yet weaponized in public.

Key facts

Researcher Xinyang Ge reported the flaw to the kernel team.
Eric Dumazet wrote the fix on October 1.
The kernel team published CVE-2026-98432 on October 15.
As of November 1, there was no confirmed exploitation in the wild.
As of November 1, the CVE had not been added to CISA KEV.

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