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 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 0.3%
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 (27)
Linux/Linux < 4.13
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 4b4defd2fce3f966c25adabf46644a85558f1169
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 52cecff98bda2c51eed1c6ce9d21c5d6268fb19d
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 5c5ff7c7bd15bb536f44b10b3fb5b8408f344d0a
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 8288d031a01dbacfde3fc643f7be3d23504de64d
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - d5f59216650c51e5e3fcb7517c825bc8047f60ef
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - e3af585e1728c917682b6a3de9a69b41fb9194d4
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - f458ba102da97fafca106327086fc95f3fc764cb
Linux/Linux 4.13
Linux/Linux 5.10.254 - 5.10.*
... and 17 more
Published Apr 30, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 30, 2026