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CVE record · CVE-2026-99173

eventfs: Free the eventfs_inode after an rcu grace period too

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0013 · 2nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 28 Oct 2026, 10:35 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 2ef3d120d19faba3dec35b10a025b00db0284373 to before 5819018dc29fb2ac2fd4865d507f9893c89c0624 git
  • affected 8e556432477e97ad6179c61b61a32bf5f1af2355 to before dd2c767814a876be0f16f0b7f98a403dc176f51e git
  • affected 8e556432477e97ad6179c61b61a32bf5f1af2355 to before 4586ef24ce390e8becb9f3e5852d5d3978b01c33 git
  • affected 8e556432477e97ad6179c61b61a32bf5f1af2355 to before 45fcfd5d9c10e0aa977ed5b9bd445707e01bb107 git
  • affected 8e556432477e97ad6179c61b61a32bf5f1af2355 to before 2cd88c498ecff8e22bf4c397b8eb226db70ac343 git
  • affected 384f383c5aa7bfd619d9f56a513a36e533428186 git
  • affected 6.6.46 to before 6.6.161 semver
  • affected 6.10.5 to before 6.11 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.11
  • unaffected before 6.11 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.161 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.115 to 6.12.*, inclusive 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-2026-99173
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
28 Oct 2026
Updated
31 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.8 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0013, the 2nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 28 Oct 2026, 10:35 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List

Sources

References from the CNA

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