SUSE · Security update for cpupower
Affects SUSESource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 21:16 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · CVSS not yet scored by NVD
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 22 Oct 2026
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors
A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.
Description
This update for cpupower fixes the following issue: - CVE-2026-80663: tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open (bsc#1278335). Changes for cpupower: - intel-speed-select: Harden daemon pidfile open (git-fixes, bsc#1278335, CVE-2026-80663) - turbostat: Fix microcode patch level output for AMD/Hygon (git-fixes) - cpupower: Reset errno before strtoull() (stable-fixes) - intel-speed-select: Fix file descriptor leak in isolate_cpus() (git-fixes) - cpupower: Fix incorrect size in cpuidle_state_disable() (stable-fixes) - cpupower: fix error return value in cpupower_write_sysfs() (stable-fixes) - cpufreq: Fix a bug where the -t option of the set subcommand was not working (stable-fixes) - turbostat: Clustered Uncore MHz counters should honor show/hide options (stable-fixes) - turbostat: Handle non-root legacy-uncore sysfs permissions (stable-fixes) - turbostat: Handle cap_get_proc() ENOSYS (stable-fixes) - turbostat: Fix build with musl (stable-fixes) - cpupower: Fix the snapshot-order of tsc,mperf, clock in mperf_stop() (stable-fixes) - power turbostat: Fix bogus SysWatt for forked program (git-fixes) - cpupower: bench: Prevent NULL dereference on malloc failure (stable-fixes)
References
- suse.com/support/security/rating/ (opens in a new tab)
- ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf/suse-su-2026_24408-1.json (opens in a new tab)
- suse.com/support/update/announcement/2026/suse-su-202624408-1/ (opens in a new tab)
- bugzilla.suse.com/1278335 (opens in a new tab)
- suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-80663/ (opens in a new tab)