CVE record · CVE-2026-97611

net: openvswitch: fix use-after-free of the flow table mask array

CVSS 7.8 HighEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:22 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e to before 4c98b492e9ed63f9ca3e23566d9a6a4f235944f4 git affected eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e to before 4016ead17acd75312c066ecd47c4b7f0a81ceaa2 git affected eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e to before 017dbbf0d6c319a487f68e22f56d91fc787d5525 git affected eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e to before 76678217cdabc41e3c74c23b45b62086ffb8fe7a git affected eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e to before cd982e11684def5d4a9fcfd5354de09032828414 git affected eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e to before a0d18d21d48a551f82ee344e50efb8a682161489 git affected eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e to before 035e9c3722067648a99010711d0ce81f42572ef4 git affected eac87c413bf9794c14d488998a5265ea5b32f04e to before ba4ba11ed6eb8972c69070417fc27b48deb002e8 git Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 5.9 unaffected before 5.9 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 7.2.7 to 7.2., inclusive semver unaffected 7.3 to , inclusive original_commit_for_fix Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-97611
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 25 Sept 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (Linux)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 5th 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 25 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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