Ubuntu LTS kernels still unpatched for critical TCP flaw after Debian, Amazon and Red Hat ship fixes
Ubuntu's tracker lists fixes as "work in progress" on every supported LTS release, more than two weeks after Debian's fix. Red Hat shipped RHEL kernel fixes Nov. 1st.
By Emerson Redding · Published
Primary source: ubuntu.com
Why it matters
Ubuntu is one of the most widely used server distributions, and its LTS users still have no packaged fix for a critical kernel flaw more than two weeks after Debian shipped one.
Ubuntu has not shipped a kernel fix for CVE-2026-98432, a critical Linux TCP flaw, on any of its supported long-term support releases. Debian fixed it Oct. 16th, and Amazon and Red Hat have since followed.…
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