Vulnerability in Linux

[ Description ]Official 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.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund28 Oct 2026WID-SEC-2026-4224

  Linux Kernel: Multiple vulnerabilities allow an unspecified attack Translated from German

  CVE-2026-99116CVE-2026-99143CVE-2026-99170+113 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f23cae09a4677a3f7c163a68388512cb231ff22
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/445bc0e0ed7b3f69b78a0fd8d3a8fdb4e20bc379
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/8512d0312cc0ea83ca4511b164c29a138bbb0c21
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/ae670c1a24fb5ffb167f26358cf47a5f0abbd670