CVE-2026-99160

Name	CVE-2026-99160
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bookworm	6.1.176-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.190-1	fixed
	trixie	6.12.107-1	vulnerable
	trixie (security)	6.12.113-1	vulnerable
	forky	7.2.12-1	vulnerable
	sid	7.2.13-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
linux	source	bookworm	(not affected)
linux	source	(unstable)	7.2.13-1

[bookworm] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
https://git.kernel.org/linus/3f23cae09a4677a3f7c163a68388512cb231ff22 (7.3)