CVE record · CVE-2026-97905

cpufreq: zero-initialize policy cpumask before sysfs publication

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0022 · 12th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:22 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
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 2fc3384dc75bf7333384c7a16d12c796f61c3f56 to before e13370c5b549712f49f80234df249303381c53b4 git
  • affected 2fc3384dc75bf7333384c7a16d12c796f61c3f56 to before e807920031ca32b668f9e7a1efbd21858f03d64b git
  • affected 2fc3384dc75bf7333384c7a16d12c796f61c3f56 to before ca52482508b3ac9febe74ca4f732647d394727b8 git
  • affected 2fc3384dc75bf7333384c7a16d12c796f61c3f56 to before 06f273d29e5e0fe5c775a65c563fbeed8cd94c7a git
  • affected 2fc3384dc75bf7333384c7a16d12c796f61c3f56 to before 0de2f3918fbbbb767e7e716178194b66560dd12a git
  • affected 2fc3384dc75bf7333384c7a16d12c796f61c3f56 to before 6e166b9281dec98aed19213a84235250e5fdb081 git
  • affected 2fc3384dc75bf7333384c7a16d12c796f61c3f56 to before bbc0472d2270bf732142ca71579d6ede636174ed git
  • affected 2fc3384dc75bf7333384c7a16d12c796f61c3f56 to before 54d37bcf2f497140b9207968557ddb484058e749 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.2
  • unaffected before 4.2 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.111 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.7 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-97905
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0022, the 12th percentile, on 12 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 25 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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