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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31588" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-24T14:42:16.288Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:55:59.596Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31588" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31588.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31588" title: "KVM: x86: Use scratch field in MMIO fragment to hold small write values" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86: Use scratch field in MMIO fragment to hold small write values\n\nWhen exiting to userspace to service an emulated MMIO write, copy the\nto-be-written value to a scratch field in the MMIO fragment if the size\nof the data payload is 8 bytes or less, i.e. can fit in a single chunk,\ninstead of pointing the fragment directly at the source value.\n\nThis fixes a class of use-after-free bugs that occur when the emulator\ninitiates a write using an on-stack, local variable as the source, the\nwrite splits a page boundary, *and* both pages are MMIO pages. Because\nKVM's ABI only allows for physically contiguous MMIO requests, accesses\nthat split MMIO pages are separated into two fragments, and are sent to\nuserspace one at a time. When KVM attempts to complete userspace MMIO in\nresponse to KVM_RUN after the first fragment, KVM will detect the second\nfragment and generate a second userspace exit, and reference the on-stack\nvariable.\n\nThe issue is most visible if the second KVM_RUN is performed by a separate\ntask, in which case the stack of the initiating task can show up as truly\nfreed data.\n\n ==================================================================\n BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in complete_emulated_mmio+0x305/0x420\n Read of size 1 at addr ffff888009c378d1 by task syz-executor417/984\n\n CPU: 1 PID: 984 Comm: syz-executor417 Not tainted 5.10.0-182.0.0.95.h2627.eulerosv2r13.x86_64 #3\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Call Trace:\n dump_stack+0xbe/0xfd\n print_address_description.constprop.0+0x19/0x170\n __kasan_report.cold+0x6c/0x84\n kasan_report+0x3a/0x50\n check_memory_region+0xfd/0x1f0\n memcpy+0x20/0x60\n complete_emulated_mmio+0x305/0x420\n kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x63f/0x6d0\n kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x413/0xb20\n __se_sys_ioctl+0x111/0x160\n do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1\n RIP: 0033:0x42477d\n Code: \u003c48\u003e 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48\n RSP: 002b:00007faa8e6890e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010\n RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000004d7338 RCX: 000000000042477d\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000ae80 RDI: 0000000000000005\n RBP: 00000000004d7330 R08: 00007fff28d546df R09: 0000000000000000\n R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000004d733c\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 000000000040a200 R15: 00007fff28d54720\n\n The buggy address belongs to the page:\n page:0000000029f6a428 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x9c37\n flags: 0xfffffc0000000(node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)\n raw: 000fffffc0000000 0000000000000000 ffffea0000270dc8 0000000000000000\n raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected\n\n Memory state around the buggy address:\n ffff888009c37780: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n ffff888009c37800: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n \u003effff888009c37880: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n ^\n ffff888009c37900: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n ffff888009c37980: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff\n ==================================================================\n\nThe bug can also be reproduced with a targeted KVM-Unit-Test by hacking\nKVM to fill a large on-stack variable in complete_emulated_mmio(), i.e. by\noverwrite the data value with garbage.\n\nLimit the use of the scratch fields to 8-byte or smaller accesses, and to\njust writes, as larger accesses and reads are not affected thanks to\nimplementation details in the emulator, but add a sanity check to ensure\nthose details don't change in the future. Specifically, KVM never uses\non-stack variables for accesses larger that 8 bytes, e.g. uses an operand\nin the emulator context, and *al\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f78146b0f9230765c6315b2e14f56112513389ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"019d0bd32b9a4646ba35d904907452039e2db700"},{"version":"f78146b0f9230765c6315b2e14f56112513389ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4569c66dd9e94a22cd0796b6514a8b25ffff16a1"},{"version":"f78146b0f9230765c6315b2e14f56112513389ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52570e73d48f1c73836d37e594667117b4c2a5a8"},{"version":"f78146b0f9230765c6315b2e14f56112513389ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dc6a6c3db3a4eca7e747cfc46e22c08d016c68f7"},{"version":"f78146b0f9230765c6315b2e14f56112513389ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b5a02d37eb0739f462fa12df449ab9b3480c783b"},{"version":"f78146b0f9230765c6315b2e14f56112513389ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"22d2ff69d487a32a8b88f9c970120fc2daa08a77"},{"version":"f78146b0f9230765c6315b2e14f56112513389ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2b83d91e9ae92fe1258d7040a32430bbb3bb7d6e"},{"version":"f78146b0f9230765c6315b2e14f56112513389ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3a7b6d75c8f85b09dea893f64a85a356bcf6c3fe"},{"version":"f78146b0f9230765c6315b2e14f56112513389ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0b16e69d17d8c35c5c9d5918bf596c75a44655d3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.5"},{"version":"5.10.258","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.136","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.83","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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