CVE record · CVE-2026-97420

bpf: NUL-terminate replaced sysctl value

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 24 Sept 2026, 16:03 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 32927393dc1ccd60fb2bdc05b9e8e88753761469 to before bfcee1f79aaefa90679ad47690107fb7682724ec git
  • affected 32927393dc1ccd60fb2bdc05b9e8e88753761469 to before c73e4a04eedc677fe91a736d7a5db45100adba5e git
  • affected 32927393dc1ccd60fb2bdc05b9e8e88753761469 to before 36d3e9f62dc2beb9299d3bb6f589cb9e07f773fe git
  • affected 32927393dc1ccd60fb2bdc05b9e8e88753761469 to before 31377675c3d75603d957c08e338a9ac27e9f6cd5 git
  • affected 32927393dc1ccd60fb2bdc05b9e8e88753761469 to before 76c14b10f50eb0afcc76e244562fa2d8c661e224 git
  • affected 32927393dc1ccd60fb2bdc05b9e8e88753761469 to before 3b2814dd842a565fcf9cc370156e1ba9eae16239 git
  • affected 32927393dc1ccd60fb2bdc05b9e8e88753761469 to before a66e3b5bacf38d6ab29fa05a9754f7a114485605 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.8
  • unaffected before 5.8 semver
  • unaffected 5.10.271 to 5.10.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 5.15.222 to 5.15.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.1.189 to 6.1.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.6.158 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.111 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.53 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-97420
CNA
Linux
Published
24 Sept 2026
Updated
3 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

No source has published a CVSS score for this record yet.

  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0017, the 6th percentile, on 12 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 24 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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