CVE-2026-31786 (GCVE-0-2026-31786)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-30 10:31 – Updated: 2026-10-19 19:06
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Title
Buffer overflow in drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c
Summary
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
Severity
7.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-16 15:13 UTC
CWE
- CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
10 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa , < e3af585e1728c917682b6a3de9a69b41fb9194d4
(git)
Affected: 84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa , < 8288d031a01dbacfde3fc643f7be3d23504de64d (git) Affected: 84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa , < f458ba102da97fafca106327086fc95f3fc764cb (git) Affected: 84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa , < 4b4defd2fce3f966c25adabf46644a85558f1169 (git) Affected: 84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa , < 5c5ff7c7bd15bb536f44b10b3fb5b8408f344d0a (git) Affected: 84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa , < d5f59216650c51e5e3fcb7517c825bc8047f60ef (git) Affected: 84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa , < 52cecff98bda2c51eed1c6ce9d21c5d6268fb19d (git) Affected: 84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa , < 27fdbab4221b375de54bf91919798d88520c6e28 (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
4.13
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.13 (semver) Unaffected: 5.10.254 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver) Unaffected: 5.15.204 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.1.170 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.137 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.85 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.26 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.3 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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