CVE record · CVE-2026-97997

virtio_ring: fix stale descriptor flags after a failed packed add

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 1ce9e6055fa0a9043405c5604cf19169ec5379ff to before 5ad081761a1f0b0d95ab08b61a6008309fba95f9 git
  • affected 1ce9e6055fa0a9043405c5604cf19169ec5379ff to before cfe8128ceb78374b0f9cebb608bb48e3928d784a git
  • affected 1ce9e6055fa0a9043405c5604cf19169ec5379ff to before 3e6400e3b8b858cdf0f8d70b20d8b55d703af368 git
  • affected 1ce9e6055fa0a9043405c5604cf19169ec5379ff to before d595358276b60e5df4d3930bc94033249b1d5adc git
  • affected 1ce9e6055fa0a9043405c5604cf19169ec5379ff to before 75d276e5bb68778b2916f98a2bc30f142ebadc64 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 5.0
  • unaffected before 5.0 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-2026-97997
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 11 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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