CVE record · CVE-2026-99085

sched_ext: Fix CPU hotplug hang when a dying CPU's tasks sit in the BPF scheduler

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 23 Oct 2026, 12:45 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 f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f to before f79cd7a2df3768323fbfb9b0f96adff08fb7eb4c git
  • affected f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f to before 638ee6bca19750934ea13f9c325f46fd8ae60064 git
  • affected f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f to before 173ff9d03ec6373c3158b6e630af33a9b36fd216 git
  • affected f0e1a0643a59bf1f922fa209cec86a170b784f3f to before d35a535d3e3e71f92a051d94e415f43612c4edfc git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.12
  • unaffected before 6.12 semver
  • unaffected 6.12.114 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.58 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.12 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-99085
CNA
Linux
Published
23 Oct 2026
Updated
23 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 0.0016, the 5th 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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