CVE record · CVE-2026-90129

virtio_balloon: quiesce balloon work before device shutdown

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0021 · 10th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 17 Sept 2026, 16:06 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected 8bd2fa086a04886798b505f28db4002525895203 to before 6dd28e32f4d81a0d57c732b9900de24184e60a7d git affected 8bd2fa086a04886798b505f28db4002525895203 to before bdef50a8226fc04899ef6815dd08a002247d47d5 git affected 8bd2fa086a04886798b505f28db4002525895203 to before 7e17eef04600c399c7e0f5ce765da5cf9d40d8e1 git affected 0c03e32494dd0bbcc301523e5ae567c2f567a7d9 git affected acdfe206be6c70ec55dc8bfdb1a22036d10fae26 git affected 1eaa83fd94ed5e40d43139025f5acb7bcfed3b5f git affected aee42f3d57bfa37b2716df4584edeecf63b9df4c git affected 6.1.191 to before 6.2 semver affected 6.6.160 to before 6.7 semver affected 6.12.114 to before 6.13 semver affected 6.14.9 to before 6.15 semver Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.15 unaffected before 6.15 semver unaffected 6.18.52 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.6 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-90129
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 17 Sept 2026
Updated: 30 Oct 2026

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The Linux kernel virtio_balloon driver is affected starting with 6.15 and is fixed in 6.18.52, 7.2.6, and 7.3. On a system booted with panic_on_warn, a reboot or kexec can hit a warning during device shutdown, which panics the machine before it reaches the new kernel. Upgrade to a fixed kernel version; no workaround is listed.

Written 12 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0021, the 10th percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 17 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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