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
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27fdbab4221b375de54bf91919798d88520c6e28 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b4defd2fce3f966c25adabf46644a85558f1169 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52cecff98bda2c51eed1c6ce9d21c5d6268fb19d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c5ff7c7bd15bb536f44b10b3fb5b8408f344d0a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8288d031a01dbacfde3fc643f7be3d23504de64d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5f59216650c51e5e3fcb7517c825bc8047f60ef Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3af585e1728c917682b6a3de9a69b41fb9194d4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f458ba102da97fafca106327086fc95f3fc764cb Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 3
- CwesCWE-787 → CWE-787, CWE-120NVD modified 2026-10-19 20:17
- StatusAnalyzed → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-19 20:17
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-16 16:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 3
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 10
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27fdbab4221b375de54bf91919798d88520c6e28 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b4defd2fce3f966c25adabf46644a85558f1169 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52cecff98bda2c51eed1c6ce9d21c5d6268fb19d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c5ff7c7bd15bb536f44b10b3fb5b8408f344d0a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8288d031a01dbacfde3fc643f7be3d23504de64d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5f59216650c51e5e3fcb7517c825bc8047f60ef Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e3af585e1728c917682b6a3de9a69b41fb9194d4 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f458ba102da97fafca106327086fc95f3fc764cb Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/28/12 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-485.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory