Published Sep 24, 2026Sources checked Nov 12, 2026
7.8HIGHCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2026-97421 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.8. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
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Vendor revision: Oct 22, 2026
Release Notes
Vendor-listed releases
6.6.158.1-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.1%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-97421?
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/umem: Be careful about boundary conditions in ib_umem_find_best_pgsz()
Several corner cases, especially important on 32 bits:
- umem->iova is u64, the function argument should pass in u64 or iova will be truncated - Check that the length is not too large for the iova - Check that lengths > 4G don't overflow the GENMASK