{"id":10627,"date":"2026-10-29T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/linux-kernel-tcp-flaw-with-9-8-cvss-score-affects-ubuntu-red-hat-and-other-distributions\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:11:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:11:49","slug":"linux-kernel-tcp-flaw-with-9-8-cvss-score-affects-ubuntu-red-hat-and-other-distributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/linux-kernel-tcp-flaw-with-9-8-cvss-score-affects-ubuntu-red-hat-and-other-distributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA flaw in the Linux kernel&#8217;s TCP code, tracked as\u00a0CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel&#8217;s own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic said\u00a0on 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\u00a0A flaw in the Linux kernel&#8217;s TCP code, tracked as\u00a0CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel&#8217;s own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic said\u00a0on 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\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA flaw in the Linux kernel&#8217;s TCP code, tracked as\u00a0CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel&#8217;s own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. Anthropic said\u00a0on October 27 that its AI model wrote an exploit that uses the flaw to let a remote&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/linux-kernel-tcp-flaw-with-9-8-cvss-score-affects-ubuntu-red-hat-and-other-distributions\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}