CVE-2026-99160

high

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Do not show buffer_meta for CPUs without a buffer The per_cpu/cpuN/buffer_meta files are created for every possible CPU, but buffer->buffers[cpu] is only allocated once that CPU comes online. Reading the file of a CPU that never came online dereferences a NULL cpu_buffer in rbm_start(). Fail the open with -ENODEV when the CPU has no buffer, as the other per CPU ring buffer interfaces do.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae670c1a24fb5ffb167f26358cf47a5f0abbd670

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8512d0312cc0ea83ca4511b164c29a138bbb0c21

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f23cae09a4677a3f7c163a68388512cb231ff22

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-111912

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-28

Updated: 2026-10-28

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00167