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Matt Corallo Flags Critical Linux Kernel Flaw; Lightning Labs Ships LND Mitigation

Bitcoin Magazine·November 4, 2026·1 min read
Matt Corallo Flags Critical Linux Kernel Flaw; Lightning Labs Ships LND Mitigation

Bitcoin developer Matt Corallo flagged CVE-2026-98432 on October 30, a critical use-after-free flaw in the Linux kernel IPv4 TCP handshake code with a CVSS score of 9.8. Anthropic's Frontier Red Team demonstrated a remote root exploit against systems with a Multipath TCP listener. Lightning Labs shipped an LND mitigation in response.

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