{
  "id": 17095403,
  "title": "Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/linux-kernel-tcp-flaw-with-9-8-cvss-score-affects-ubuntu-red-hat-and",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-29T15:57:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/linux-kernel-tcp-flaw-with-98-cvss.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}