CVE record · CVE-2026-97960

perf/x86/intel: Prevent drain_pebs() reentry

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:23 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 b752ea0c28e3f7f0aaaad6abf84f735eebc37a60 to before 9882068ed242fcd4743f53027e8c790e88dcafff git
  • affected b752ea0c28e3f7f0aaaad6abf84f735eebc37a60 to before 999e482fdf89400cc1ae937680fc05096b4c915b git
  • affected b752ea0c28e3f7f0aaaad6abf84f735eebc37a60 to before a5fe19dd8b3ed5fad6e5e0f0c58c7245043ee4af git
  • affected b752ea0c28e3f7f0aaaad6abf84f735eebc37a60 to before c55599c0ec2aa020e41a0599c3044c56d8a2e7d9 git
  • affected b752ea0c28e3f7f0aaaad6abf84f735eebc37a60 to before a56c03a397e2cd0c4cf8da96dcd6214f7d0e7d8c git
  • affected a9165207b2b07415eeb01b3ac8bb84976ec96984 git
  • affected 6.3.7 to before 6.4 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.4
  • unaffected before 6.4 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.114 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-2026-97960
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
21 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 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 11 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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