{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97981 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-97981 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 25 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-97981 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-97981 is a denial of service vulnerability in Linux, published on 25 Sep 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97981 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97981/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97981/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-97981","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97981/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-97981","record":{"aliases":["AZL-104403","BELL-CVE-2026-97981","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-97981","GHSA-qrx6-pjc4-f5p5","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-97981"],"analysis":{"component_type":"kernel","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Linux kernel driver","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A flaw in the Cortina Ethernet driver allows remote attackers to cause denial of service by sending malformed frames that bypass NAPI budget limits.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Linux","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethernet: cortina: Count dropped frames as NAPI work\n\nThe RX loop only consumes budget when it successfully delivers a frame.\nError paths keep consuming descriptors without reducing the budget, so a\nstream of bad frames can process the entire receive ring in one poll.\n\nMove the budget accounting to a common end-of-frame path. This counts\neach completed frame as NAPI work whether it was delivered or dropped,\nmatching the behavior of the vendor driver.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"net: ethernet: cortina: Count dropped frames as NAPI work","id":"CVE-2026-97981","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"net: ethernet: cortina: Fix budget accounting","id":"CVE-2026-97982"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"s390/debug: Fix NULL pointer dereference in debug_set_level()","id":"CVE-2026-97980"},"products":["Linux"],"published":"2026-09-25","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-19","vendors":["Linux"]},"summary":"A flaw in the Cortina Ethernet driver allows remote attackers to cause denial of service by sending malformed frames that bypass NAPI budget limits.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97981/"}