CVE-2026-31786

HIGH

Buffer overflow in drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Buffer overflow in drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c The build id returned by HYPERVISOR_xen_version(XENVER_build_id) is neither NUL terminated nor a string. The first causes a buffer overflow as sprintf in buildid_show will read and copy till it finds a NUL. 00000000 f4 91 51 f4 dd 38 9e 9d 65 47 52 eb 10 71 db 50 |..Q..8..eGR..q.P| 00000010 b9 a8 01 42 6f 2e 32 |...Bo.2| 00000017 So use a memcpy instead of sprintf to have the correct value: 00000000 f4 91 51 f4 dd 00 9e 9d 65 47 52 eb 10 71 db 50 |..Q.....eGR..q.P| 00000010 b9 a8 01 42 |...B| 00000014 (the above have a hack to embed a zero inside and check it's returned correctly). This is XSA-485 / CVE-2026-31786

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0020
EPSS Percentile 9.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (35)
linux/Kernel 4.13.0 - 5.10.254linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.204linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.170linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.26linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.3linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.137linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.85linux
Linux/Linux < 4.13
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 4b4defd2fce3f966c25adabf46644a85558f1169
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 52cecff98bda2c51eed1c6ce9d21c5d6268fb19d
... and 25 more
Published Apr 30, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 30, 2026