CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-45890
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-25
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
xen-netback: reject zero-queue configuration from guest
A malicious or buggy Xen guest can write "0" to the xenbus key
"multi-queue-num-queues". The connect() function in the backend only
validates the upper bound (requested_num_queues > xenvif_max_queues)
but not zero, allowing requested_num_queues=0 to reach
vzalloc(array_size(0, sizeof(struct xenvif_queue))), which triggers
WARN_ON_ONCE(!size) in __vmalloc_node_range().
On systems with panic_on_warn=1, this allows a guest-to-host denial
of service.
The Xen network interface specification requires
the queue count to be "greater than zero".
Add a zero check to match the validation already present
in xen-blkback, which has included this
guard since its multi-queue support was added.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 3.16 < 5.10.252)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.202)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.165)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.128)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.75)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.14)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.4)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2993e0f904c45f8af12917344bb1cac7ccd05a60 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/654780dee9eae419e1648ea58462c4efe54518fa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d1dc8014334c7fb25719999bca84d811e60a559 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/787bfa423228c4b02ba3368128f625d579085353 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/88b0fced1bbbfdb356a007592604008ffc93a6a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce66d6786de45b7ed9cbbdc0988054bf09e58f54 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d99f69ddc70fd9f4b8148add62209a1a8eb5c615 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec4859ac5c933e3315543a61adc1ca4358006a41 Patch