CVE record · CVE-2026-99120

KVM: x86/mmu: Cope with the SS bit being set in #NPF exit codes

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 28 Oct 2026, 10:34 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 8db428fd5229ba509d515af10d7f33d7d4a54bfe to before 0caeefed99b37f03251a00eb1fdb403a1cf2cb68 git
  • affected 8db428fd5229ba509d515af10d7f33d7d4a54bfe to before d6e08ec2fff45e0ec69f11010851650d7c6282b9 git
  • affected 8db428fd5229ba509d515af10d7f33d7d4a54bfe to before e90ab3669181c6469e3647ef2b30ae408275f496 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.18
  • unaffected before 6.18 semver
  • unaffected 6.18.59 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.13 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-99120
CNA
Linux
Published
28 Oct 2026
Updated
28 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 5 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 28 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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