{"cve":"CVE-2026-31786","nvd":{"published":"2026-04-30T11:16:20.967","modified":"2026-10-19T20:17:59.360","status":"Modified","description":"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","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":7.8},"cwes":["CWE-787","CWE-120"],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/27fdbab4221b375de54bf91919798d88520c6e28","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b4defd2fce3f966c25adabf46644a85558f1169","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52cecff98bda2c51eed1c6ce9d21c5d6268fb19d","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c5ff7c7bd15bb536f44b10b3fb5b8408f344d0a","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8288d031a01dbacfde3fc643f7be3d23504de64d"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-21T03:43:09.190223697+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-31786","score":0.00197,"percentile":0.09314,"date":"2026-10-26"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}