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CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation

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  • Points7
  • Comments1
–Rank now
#23Peak rank
1Days on list
–Score · 7d
Oct 30, 2026First seen

On Hacker News

Points
7
Comments
1
Submitted by
cobychapple
Posted
Oct 30, 2026
Site
penligent.ai

Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on penligent.ai.

Trending history

CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Oct 30, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 16 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #23 of 30, reached on Oct 30, 07:07 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 07:22 UTC.

Rank history

Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).

#1#11#20#30 03:3704:3305:2906:2607:22 Oct 30, 03:37 UTC · #29Oct 30, 03:52 UTC · #29Oct 30, 04:07 UTC · #29Oct 30, 04:22 UTC · #27Oct 30, 04:37 UTC · #27Oct 30, 04:52 UTC · #27Oct 30, 05:07 UTC · #26Oct 30, 05:22 UTC · #24Oct 30, 05:37 UTC · #24Oct 30, 05:52 UTC · #24Oct 30, 06:07 UTC · #24Oct 30, 06:22 UTC · #24Oct 30, 06:37 UTC · #24Oct 30, 06:52 UTC · #24Oct 30, 07:07 UTC · #23Oct 30, 07:22 UTC · #23

Last 14 days

Best rank per day (UTC).

Oct 26today

Metric history

Platform metric as reported by Hacker News.

0173451 03:3704:3305:2906:2607:22 Oct 30, 03:37 UTC · 5Oct 30, 03:52 UTC · 8Oct 30, 04:07 UTC · 11Oct 30, 04:22 UTC · 17Oct 30, 04:37 UTC · 21Oct 30, 04:52 UTC · 24Oct 30, 05:07 UTC · 26Oct 30, 05:22 UTC · 34Oct 30, 05:37 UTC · 35Oct 30, 05:52 UTC · 36Oct 30, 06:07 UTC · 38Oct 30, 06:22 UTC · 40Oct 30, 06:37 UTC · 42Oct 30, 06:52 UTC · 46Oct 30, 07:07 UTC · 49Oct 30, 07:22 UTC · 51

From the discussion

A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.

This one is quite serious and the type of vulnerability is once again, a C style memory corruption and a race condition combined; leading to an RCE. At this point, we seriously need to discuss whether if the major projects still written in C such as Linux, Chromium and even git can even handle the stream of now near…

Questions

Is CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation trending on Hacker News right now?

Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Oct 30, 07:22 UTC, after 1 day of trending.

What is the highest rank CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation reached?

#23 on Hacker News · Front page, on Oct 30, 07:07 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.

How long has CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation been trending?

It was first seen on Oct 30, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (16 checks) since.

How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?

7 points and 1 comment; submitted by cobychapple on Oct 30, 2026.