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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-31786" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-04-30T10:31:28.293Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T19:06:08.809Z" 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-2026-31786" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31786.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31786" title: "Buffer overflow in drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nBuffer overflow in drivers/xen/sys-hypervisor.c\n\nThe build id returned by HYPERVISOR_xen_version(XENVER_build_id) is\nneither NUL terminated nor a string.\n\nThe first causes a buffer overflow as sprintf in buildid_show will\nread and copy till it finds a NUL.\n\n00000000 f4 91 51 f4 dd 38 9e 9d 65 47 52 eb 10 71 db 50 |..Q..8..eGR..q.P|\n00000010 b9 a8 01 42 6f 2e 32 |...Bo.2|\n00000017\n\nSo use a memcpy instead of sprintf to have the correct value:\n\n00000000 f4 91 51 f4 dd 00 9e 9d 65 47 52 eb 10 71 db 50 |..Q.....eGR..q.P|\n00000010 b9 a8 01 42 |...B|\n00000014\n\n(the above have a hack to embed a zero inside and check it's\nreturned correctly).\n\nThis is XSA-485 / CVE-2026-31786" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e3af585e1728c917682b6a3de9a69b41fb9194d4"},{"version":"84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8288d031a01dbacfde3fc643f7be3d23504de64d"},{"version":"84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f458ba102da97fafca106327086fc95f3fc764cb"},{"version":"84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4b4defd2fce3f966c25adabf46644a85558f1169"},{"version":"84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c5ff7c7bd15bb536f44b10b3fb5b8408f344d0a"},{"version":"84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5f59216650c51e5e3fcb7517c825bc8047f60ef"},{"version":"84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"52cecff98bda2c51eed1c6ce9d21c5d6268fb19d"},{"version":"84b7625728ea311ea35bdaa0eded53c1c56baeaa","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"27fdbab4221b375de54bf91919798d88520c6e28"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.13"},{"version":"5.10.254","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.204","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.170","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.137","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.85","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.26","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.3","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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