CVE record · CVE-2026-99046

gve: fix XSK buffer leak on error descriptor

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0053 · 44th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 12:22 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff to before 06656aaa7e43ae62b673c2244d27099b8b94a70d git affected c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff to before 889f763874855c575429f75946132a53c573aa14 git affected c1fffc5d66a7147d557736c2341a511e0896d9ff to before 9fed6a8ab8a5bacba2c709cb19d2dd6d2fa9112e git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 6.17 unaffected before 6.17 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-2026-99046
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
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0053, the 44th percentile, on 5 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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