CVE record · CVE-2026-97995

virtio_console: do not free control-out buffers on remove

No CVSS scoreEPSS 0.0018 · 7th 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
Vendor	Product	Versions
Linux	Linux	affected a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b to before b1f39c2a676698cc64c8e105e08b25111a112ec6 git affected a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b to before e03522a990cd2e0f1a736eaa349a9df9ab8541c3 git affected a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b to before 8f6cfc3eca79b8e108d0823756101e2f4f9d811f git affected a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b to before 2e40c69b9c3448b9c6609cd02013da593b2e123b git affected a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b to before 177ee901aa2bab02e7f1f8edbb814fd5e386ed62 git affected a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b to before a80c33488e0bbe642ed803b13a4ac8078a70b507 git affected a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b to before f620c40ea6862feed84deb105568b21ec53a7830 git affected a7a69ec0d8e4a58be7db88d33cbfa2912807bb2b to before 894f98e73983f37354214a89a3a7fd35bf9e3072 git affected f92b16b815efe8207090a9b5a767618fd89542ca git affected d2bbfac82b7942afc5d8e564d7087835280df495 git affected a88e13d9a092fbb772d380944b44eb549ef131fe git affected dd807a784fd36f4136516d5858efb6473dda422c git and 10 more Other versions: unaffected
Linux	Linux	affected 4.17 unaffected before 4.17 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-2026-97995
CNA: Linux
Tags: Linux kernel
Published: 25 Sept 2026
Updated: 19 Oct 2026

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Severity and exploitation

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CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0018, the 7th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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