CVE-2026-99160 in Linux
Summary
by MITRE • 10/28/2026
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.
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