CVE-2026-97991

HIGHPre-NVD 7.87.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-25. A secondary CVSS source baseline 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.1%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vdpa_sim_blk: reject out-of-range sector starts

vdpasim_blk_check_range() logs an invalid start sector but continues validating the request. The subsequent unsigned capacity subtraction can underflow and let an out-of-range buffer offset reach the data path.

The invalid offset is used by three request paths. VIRTIO_BLK_T_OUT copies guest data to blk->buffer + offset through vringh_iov_pull_iotlb(), causing an out-of-bounds write in _copy_from_iter() or memcpy(). VIRTIO_BLK_T_IN copies from blk->buffer + offset to the guest through vringh_iov_push_iotlb(), causing an out-of-bounds read in _copy_to_iter(). VIRTIO_BLK_T_WRITE_ZEROES passes blk->buffer + offset to memset(), causing an out-of-bounds write.

Reject starts at or beyond the capacity before the subtraction. Treat the capacity boundary as invalid because the IN and OUT paths round byte counts down to sectors for validation but later copy the original byte counts. A sub-sector request at the capacity boundary would otherwise still access past the end of the buffer.

I found this bug myself, though the patch was written with AI assistance.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity78% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability30% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.
EPSS PROB
0.1%
EPSS %ILE
1st
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

No fix is confirmed yet. Restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high, and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix.

Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 25, 2026

Last Modified

October 3, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Sep 25, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

vdpa_sim_blk: reject out-of-range sector starts - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a8693f00c408d85f086ad85d29e7030bf1e2055
generic

vdpa_sim_blk: reject out-of-range sector starts - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6dac17e20fd2abd0eb8c09d69fccf7426e12bcf
generic

vdpa_sim_blk: reject out-of-range sector starts - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8a1413a2cfdbedc896249f461d6d92efbbfe21f
generic

vdpa_sim_blk: reject out-of-range sector starts - kernel/git/stable/linux.git - Linux kernel stable tree

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14acb0d44b7d90a077beb7b92b444b90bafda9d9

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-97991(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(4 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.1.106-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (360 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
linux-6.126.12.100-1~deb12u1, 6.12.101-1~deb12u1, 6.12.107-1~deb12u1
  • every version up to 6.12.111-1~deb12u1: fixed in 6.12.111-1~deb12u1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 6.12.96-1 (35 versions)
  • every version up to 6.12.111-1: fixed in 6.12.111-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
linux6.12.100-1 ... 7.2~rc7-1~exp1 (180 versions)
  • every version up to 7.2.7-1: fixed in 7.2.7-1
—

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 45× in last 7d / 64× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-05 02:42 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-05 02:42 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-05 02:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-04 23:23 UTCEPSS rescore
  5. 2026-10-04 13:37 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-04 13:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-04 00:32 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-04 00:32 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-04 00:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-10-03 11:28 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-03 11:28 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-03 11:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-10-03 11:15 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-03 11:15 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-03 11:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-03 06:50 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-03 06:50 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-03 06:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-10-02 17:45 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-02 17:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-10-02 04:40 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-02 04:40 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-02 04:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
Show 39 more
  1. 2026-10-01 19:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-01 15:33 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-01 15:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-01 02:21 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-01 02:21 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-01 02:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  8. 2026-09-30 13:16 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-09-30 13:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-30 00:12 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-09-30 00:12 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-09-30 00:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-30 00:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-29 11:03 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-09-29 11:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-28 21:58 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-28 21:58 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-09-28 21:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-28 08:54 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-09-28 08:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-27 19:49 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-27 19:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-27 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  26. 2026-09-27 06:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-09-26 17:39 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-26 17:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  30. 2026-09-26 04:30 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-09-26 04:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-09-25 15:24 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-25 15:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-09-25 14:52 UTCEG score recompute▲ 7.80
  35. 2026-09-25 14:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-09-25 14:49 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 7.8 · severity → HIGH
  37. 2026-09-25 11:30 UTCNVD update
  38. 2026-09-25 10:30 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-09-25 10:27 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-97991?
CVE-2026-97991 is a high vulnerability published on September 25, 2026. In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vdpasimblk: reject out-of-range sector starts vdpasimblkcheck_range() logs an invalid start sector but continues validating the request. The subsequent unsigned capacity subtraction can underflow and let an out-of-range buffer…
When was CVE-2026-97991 disclosed?
CVE-2026-97991 was first published on September 25, 2026, with the most recent update on October 3, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-97991 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-97991 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (1st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-97991?
CVE-2026-97991 has a CVSS base score of 7.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-97991?
No fix for CVE-2026-97991 is confirmed yet. Until one is published, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation — for example, keep it off the internet or limit it to trusted networks — and watch the vendor's advisory for the fix. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-97991 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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