CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46034
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path
Add validation to ensure MSI is configured before accessing cdx_irqs
array in vfio_cdx_set_msi_trigger(). Without this check, userspace
can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by calling VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS
with VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_BOOL or VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_NONE flags before
ever setting up interrupts via VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_EVENTFD.
The vfio_cdx_msi_enable() function allocates the cdx_irqs array and
sets config_msi to 1 only when called through the EVENTFD path. The
trigger loop (for DATA_BOOL/DATA_NONE) assumed this had already been
done, but there was no enforcement of this call ordering.
This matches the protection used in the PCI VFIO driver where
vfio_pci_set_msi_trigger() checks irq_is() before the trigger loop.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.10 < 6.12.86)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.27)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/338a736aaf15e8ba3635ce20b29af5b8fc15e66a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51bf7638f33aece41cb3f4cbeb942cc52950e329 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d6c349c9823eb819fed8b537b088cf38126018c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ea5880764cbb164afb17a62e76ca75dc371409d Patch