CVE-2026-89984EPSS p10.3%
CVE-2026-89984CVE-2026-89984
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
perf/x86/intel: Fix kernel address leakages in LBR stack
Before Arch LBR gained CPL filtering support, a user-only branch stack
could still contain kernel addresses. As a result, kernel branch records
may be exposed to user space even when PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_USER is
requested.
For example, on Intel Tiger Lake, the following command can still report
SYSRET/ERET entries with kernel-space from addresses:
$ ./perf record -e cycles:p -o - --branch-filter any,save_type,u -- \
./perf bench syscall basic --loop 1000 | \
./perf script -i - --fields brstack|tr ' ' '\n'| \
grep -E '0x[89a-f][0-9a-f]{15}'
Total time: 0.000 [sec]
0.219000 usecs/op
4,566,210 ops/sec
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.551 MB - ]
0xffffffff93c001c8/0x7f12a2b1d647/P/-/-/16959/SYSRET/-
0xffffffff93c001c8/0x7f12a2b1d5c2/P/-/-/17535/SYSRET/-
0xffffffff93c01928/0x7f12a2861000/P/-/-/6
Scoring
| EPSS | 0.21% probability of exploitation · percentile 10.3% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-16 |