vfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-46034
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.14 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8 < 51bf7638f33aece41cb3f4cbeb942cc52950e329 ; affected 848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8 < 5d6c349c9823eb819fed8b537b088cf38126018c ; affected 848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8 < 338a736aaf15e8ba3635ce20b29af5b8fc15e66a ; affected 848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8 < 5ea5880764cbb164afb17a62e76ca75dc371409d
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.10 ; unaffected 0 < 6.10 ; unaffected 6.12.86 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.27 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.0.4 ≤ 7.0.* ; unaffected 7.1 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD