Seven fixed versions in the CVE and none of them boots your Proxmox
CVE-2026-98432 is a 9.8 in the Linux kernel: a use-after-free in the IPv4 TCP handshake, exploitable with no credentials and no interaction. The advisory lists seven fixed versions — 5.10.272, 5.15.223, 6.1.190, 6.6.159, 6.12.113, 6.18.56 and 7.2.10 — and not one matches the branch a Proxmox node boots. What actually triggers the bug according to the CVE's own field-by-field justification, the clocks of Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat and Proxmox as of 31 October, what the published exploit proves and what it does not, and six checks with commands.