# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-97916"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:22:37.699Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:53:35.648Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-97916"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97916.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97916"
title: "accel/ivpu: Validate firmware log buffer metadata"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\naccel/ivpu: Validate firmware log buffer metadata\n\nThe tracing log headers parsed by fw_log_print_buffer() reside in\nDMA-shared BOs that the NPU firmware can write to.\n\nfw_log_from_bo() validated log-\u003eheader_size and log-\u003esize, but\nfw_log_print_buffer() re-read those same fields from shared memory\nafterwards, allowing a TOCTOU where firmware changes them between the\ncheck and the use, and making the host dereference out-of-bounds\naddresses while printing logs.\n\nSnapshot the validated values once with READ_ONCE() and pass them down\nexplicitly in a new struct ivpu_fw_log_desc instead of re-reading them\nfrom the shared struct."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"07d4190d75021c38b7994045179aa29131634d4f"},{"version":"d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8ec3d6972f1440fae6c8dadd1859892775208759"},{"version":"d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"40868f80a89199630b03d4457876f9a1feba0660"},{"version":"d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1555f63ee1a680f280bc18e8dac416f250e2ec3"},{"version":"d4e4257afa6ed5205eda993180401fc2c20e4b60","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0724afc55c77c36c7feb9a7264b02aa7593c5c2d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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