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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97993" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:25.110Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:00.172Z" 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-2026-97993" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97993.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97993" title: "vhost-vdpa: don't install the eventfd_ctx_fdget() error in config_ctx" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvhost-vdpa: don't install the eventfd_ctx_fdget() error in config_ctx\n\nvhost_vdpa_set_config_call() swaps the eventfd_ctx_fdget() return value\ninto v-\u003econfig_ctx before checking it, so on failure the field briefly\nholds an ERR_PTR:\n\n\tctx = fd == VHOST_FILE_UNBIND ? NULL : eventfd_ctx_fdget(fd);\n\tswap(ctx, v-\u003econfig_ctx);\n\n\tif (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(ctx))\n\t\teventfd_ctx_put(ctx);\n\n\tif (IS_ERR(v-\u003econfig_ctx)) {\n\t\tlong ret = PTR_ERR(v-\u003econfig_ctx);\n\n\t\tv-\u003econfig_ctx = NULL;\n\t\treturn ret;\n\t}\n\nCommit 0bde59c1723a (\"vhost-vdpa: set v-\u003econfig_ctx to NULL if\neventfd_ctx_fdget() fails\") added that clearing, and spelled out the\ninvariant the rest of the file relies on: \"we consider 'v-\u003econfig_ctx'\nvalid if it is not NULL\". The window between the swap and the clearing\nstill breaks it. vhost_vdpa_config_cb() only tests for NULL, so a config\ninterrupt delivered inside the window hands the ERR_PTR to\neventfd_signal().\n\nCheck the fd before installing it instead. That closes the window and\nmatches how vhost_vring_ioctl() handles the same failure for the vq call\nfd.\n\nIt also stops a rejected fd from tearing down a config interrupt that was\nworking: until now the swap replaced the live context and put it, so\nafter an EBADF the device silently stopped delivering config interrupts\nuntil userspace installed a new fd." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"776f395004d829bbbf18c159ed9beb517a208c71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e260dc9fbfdae0978e7a8698f977fbb463a657be"},{"version":"776f395004d829bbbf18c159ed9beb517a208c71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"66e73fa18910b39fea0941dea5fe091122240855"},{"version":"776f395004d829bbbf18c159ed9beb517a208c71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4fde085eb839fbb39c25cbba5d2a091ded394877"},{"version":"776f395004d829bbbf18c159ed9beb517a208c71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"59fc7c1c6b4d325194ca45352180340092d95098"},{"version":"776f395004d829bbbf18c159ed9beb517a208c71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"388c678639a0cebfd936b3e56c64ac6a371efec2"},{"version":"776f395004d829bbbf18c159ed9beb517a208c71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"65faf9eaa00e408e1406fbcf675c8c8d0e27ff2a"},{"version":"776f395004d829bbbf18c159ed9beb517a208c71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b20b40f020bde236f6b8a08ff88d8653261ec2b"},{"version":"776f395004d829bbbf18c159ed9beb517a208c71","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e74a9fa50749b9940b4fb13199652325e08d3c4a"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.8"},{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","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"}] ## 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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