Published Sep 16, 2026Sources checked Nov 10, 2026
8.4HIGHCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2026-89992 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 8.4. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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Remediation and response
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Vendor revision: Oct 21, 2026
Release Notes
Vendor-listed releases
6.6.157.1-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.2%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-89992?
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpuidle: dt_idle_genpd: kfree() the original name allocation
dt_idle_pd_alloc() kasprintf()s the full node path, then points pd->name at kbasename() of that string. dt_idle_pd_free() kfree()s pd->name, which is no longer the start of the allocation.