# CVE-2026-99251: Drivers: hv: Avoid infinite retry loop in init\_vp\_index()

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-115762
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-11-03 · Updated: 2026-11-03

CVE-2026-99251 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It affects Linux; no fixed version is listed yet.

## Summary

The affected software is the Linux kernel's Hyper-V virtual machine driver support (the hv drivers used when Linux runs as a guest on Microsoft Hyper-V). The flaw is an infinite retry loop during virtual processor index setup, which can cause the affected system to hang or stop making progress during initialization.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 5.19

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Drivers: hv: Avoid infinite retry loop in init_vp_index() There is a retry loop in init_vp_index() where the CPUs from a certain node are stripped out if they have already been in the allocated cpumask or not in HK_TYPE_MANAGED_IRQ housekeeping cpumask. If there is no CPU left, the allocated cpumask is ignored and the process is retried again. However, if the HK_TYPE_MANAGED_IRQ housekeeping cpumask turns out not to contain any CPU in that particular node, that will become an infinite retry loop. This particular problem was reported by sashiko [1]. This should rarely happen, but we still need to guard against this. Fix this infinite loop problem by also skipping NUMA node that has no housekeeping CPU in the inner while loop of init_vp_index(). Also update the early abort check to check for the absence of online housekeeping CPUs instead of just the emptiness of the cpumask. As the outer for loop will only be reached if the housekeeping cpumask has at least one online CPU, a NUMA node with housekeeping CPUs will eventually be found.

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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-99251 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-99251

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-99251?

Linux: version 5.19.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-99251

## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3993f6dc106ff416c7a613c631e1e0af451aed7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f561392afb44a8a42c54c1cfd3f33dace0b50537
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15dd3429f0e76ca071657e480cb7e6ff3a1af730
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7141331f2d245efc07175802a6bf76badec871ed
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/95fec47cdbf747b81ab22affd7252dda6050ad0c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32ea0a33e3a0fb7c10c601b43e1b2f6c06a3f5fd

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