CVE record · CVE-2026-98472

KVM: SEV: Free have_run_cpus during VM destruction even if VM is no longer SEV

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:15 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 6f38f8c574642a822f2e85f079fa29a49176c49c to before 6aef7cf800098749ff5d660222efaf6e01e98c09 git affected 6f38f8c574642a822f2e85f079fa29a49176c49c to before 9784e5ca91b37b387f3f414af4340c54f7a63566 git affected 6f38f8c574642a822f2e85f079fa29a49176c49c to before 12c1f6e03f944e399bd2c88441dca5dc702b95a5 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.17 unaffected before 6.17 semver unaffected 6.18.55 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.9 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-98472
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 18 Oct 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0017, the 5th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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