# CVE-2026-99267: io\_uring/napi: make stale entries time out after 60s

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-11-03 · Updated: 2026-11-03

CVE-2026-99267 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 Linux kernel's io_uring subsystem, specifically its NAPI busy-polling feature, is affected. Stale NAPI IDs that should be dropped after 60 seconds are instead kept indefinitely due to an incorrect timeout calculation, which can cause the kernel to keep busy-polling unnecessary network IDs on every wait and waste CPU resources.

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

## Affected

- Linux: version range not reported
- Linux: 6.9

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/napi: make stale entries time out after 60s With dynamic tracking a NAPI id that hasn't been seen for a minute is meant to be dropped from the list the ring busy polls. The timeout is added to jiffies, but it is defined as 60 * SEC_CONVERSION, and SEC_CONVERSION isn't the number of jiffies in a second. It is the internal factor of __timespec64_to_jiffies(), HZ scaled up by SEC_JIFFIE_SC bits. For HZ=1000 that is 1000 << 22, which puts the timeout at about eight years. On 32-bit the multiplication overflows. So entries are never removed, and every id that a socket of the ring ever had keeps being polled on each wait.

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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-99267 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-2026-99267

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-99267?

Linux: version 6.9.

Source: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-99267

## Related

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## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fe820cf35f83534eab72ea73f1a83cfd3cd8079
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18c373f446068972788158c8c7de6e849b04ed98
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/981621d6eadcd232d4ea748aaeb046337f10d3c1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c151648780d89e5446e5f89f3fa2e416c3bb911

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