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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-97995" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-09-25T10:23:26.307Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:12:02.162Z" 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-2026-97995" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-97995.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97995" title: "virtio_console: do not free control-out buffers on remove" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio_console: do not free control-out buffers on remove\n\n__send_control_msg() publishes &portdev-\u003ecpkt as the control-out\nvirtqueue cookie. remove_vqs() walks every virtqueue and passes leftover\ncookies to free_buf(), which treats them as struct port_buffer and\nreads sgpages.\n\nIf a control message is still on c_ovq when the device is unbound,\nfree_buf() reads past the ports_device object.\n\nKASAN reported slab-out-of-bounds in free_buf():\n\n\tfree_buf\n\tremove_vqs\n\tvirtcons_remove\n\tunbind_store\n\nThe object was the ports_device allocated in virtcons_probe().\n\nDrain c_ovq without freeing. The packet lives in portdev and is released\nwith it." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1f39c2a676698cc64c8e105e08b25111a112ec6"},{"version":"a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e03522a990cd2e0f1a736eaa349a9df9ab8541c3"},{"version":"a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8f6cfc3eca79b8e108d0823756101e2f4f9d811f"},{"version":"a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e40c69b9c3448b9c6609cd02013da593b2e123b"},{"version":"a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"177ee901aa2bab02e7f1f8edbb814fd5e386ed62"},{"version":"a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a80c33488e0bbe642ed803b13a4ac8078a70b507"},{"version":"a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f620c40ea6862feed84deb105568b21ec53a7830"},{"version":"a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"894f98e73983f37354214a89a3a7fd35bf9e3072"},{"version":"f92b16b815efe8207090a9b5a767618fd89542ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"d2bbfac82b7942afc5d8e564d7087835280df495","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"a88e13d9a092fbb772d380944b44eb549ef131fe","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"dd807a784fd36f4136516d5858efb6473dda422c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"47cb14192bcbba3f15b1c3561e05e084e56fdef6","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6b1c41a0f7183702abb7a104c6c7e196ad69a6b3","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"9037306163a6ba5587e4b5ca511ac7be4fb7295b","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3.16.60","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.17"},{"version":"3.18.108","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.19"},{"version":"4.1.52","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.2"},{"version":"4.4.131","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.5"},{"version":"4.9.98","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.10"},{"version":"4.14.39","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.15"},{"version":"4.16.7","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.17"},{"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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