CVE record · CVE-2026-99017

riscv: errata: select RISCV_ALTERNATIVE_EARLY for THEAD GHOSTWRITE

CVSS 7.0 HighEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 12:20 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 4bf97069239bcfca9840936313c7ac35a6e04488 to before fa465a7819ecbe5801b78c088d3cadaf2664b8ca git affected 4bf97069239bcfca9840936313c7ac35a6e04488 to before 7fee577a2fa78b9a76da015beec1ccf978746ebb git affected 4bf97069239bcfca9840936313c7ac35a6e04488 to before 298510bbc7c3017c0faf481c6ea66f1065b657b4 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.14 unaffected before 6.14 semver unaffected 6.18.57 to 6.18., inclusive semver unaffected 7.2.11 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-99017
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 23 Oct 2026
Updated: 24 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.0	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 5th percentile, on 6 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 23 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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