# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31787"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-30T10:31:28.992Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:44:41.402Z"
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-2026-31787"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31787.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31787"
title: "xen/privcmd: fix double free via VMA splitting"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxen/privcmd: fix double free via VMA splitting\n\nprivcmd_vm_ops defines .close (privcmd_close), but neither .may_split\nnor .open. When userspace does a partial munmap() on a privcmd mapping,\nthe kernel splits the VMA via __split_vma(). Since may_split is NULL,\nthe split is allowed. vm_area_dup() copies vm_private_data (a pages\narray allocated in alloc_empty_pages()) into the new VMA without any\nfixup, because there is no .open callback.\n\nBoth VMAs now point to the same pages array. When the unmapped portion\nis closed, privcmd_close() calls:\n    - xen_unmap_domain_gfn_range()\n    - xen_free_unpopulated_pages()\n    - kvfree(pages)\n\nThe surviving VMA still holds the dangling pointer. When it is later\ndestroyed, the same sequence runs again, which leads to a double free.\n\nFix this issue by adding a .may_split callback denying the VMA split.\n\nThis is XSA-487 / CVE-2026-31787"
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