Bug 2562758 (CVE-2026-99160) - CVE-2026-99160 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via null pointer dereference in ring buffer metadata
Summary: CVE-2026-99160 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via null pointer dereference...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99160
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Reported: 2026-10-28 11:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-01 15:34 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-28 11:04:50 UTC
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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