CVE record · CVE-2026-97988

vhost: invalidate vring access on IOTLB transitions

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0017 · 6th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 25 Sept 2026, 10:23 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 6b1e6cc7855b09a0a9bfa1d9f30172ba366f161c to before 021bf73731f7aa94540a549cf850db5968019960 git
  • affected 6b1e6cc7855b09a0a9bfa1d9f30172ba366f161c to before e8fe13c14d57cc7c6bd69c72c5fabaaf0d918f98 git
  • affected 6b1e6cc7855b09a0a9bfa1d9f30172ba366f161c to before 7f8ee0b8f632441aec456a7c147fb43f5c73542d git
  • affected 6b1e6cc7855b09a0a9bfa1d9f30172ba366f161c to before 4a454af8e56c1596ada1421ae5eba90c8896c7c7 git
  • affected 6b1e6cc7855b09a0a9bfa1d9f30172ba366f161c to before e4f4761879a230aa59e569102a6ab9851847d833 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 4.8
  • unaffected before 4.8 semver
  • unaffected 6.6.160 to 6.6.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.12.114 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.57 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-2026-97988
CNA
Linux
Published
25 Sept 2026
Updated
21 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 25 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.