KVM: Move kvm_io_bus_get_dev() locking responsibilities to callers (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72282
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.18 % · percentile 7 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Move kvm_io_bus_get_dev() locking responsibilities to callers kvm_io_bus_get_dev() returns a device that is only matched by the address, and nothing else. This can cause a lifetime issue if the matched device is not the expected type, as by the time the caller can introspect the object, it might be gone (the srcu lock having been dropped). Given that there is only a single user of this helper, the simplest option is to move the locking responsibility to the caller, which can keep the srcu lock held for as long as it wants. Note that this aligns with other kvm_io_bus*() helpers, which already require the srcu lock to be held by the callers.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 8a39d00670f0792c1186e442e1dd28fe0326f2ee < f398b7d92cd999191249830b9171c9bd787a9a91 ; affected 8a39d00670f0792c1186e442e1dd28fe0326f2ee < 1b4a3c2f0509e7b0e65667f3c36676a849ee2755 ; affected 8a39d00670f0792c1186e442e1dd28fe0326f2ee < cfe107b02a3c3f049e0dc15b6a36625f048eda2a ; affected 8a39d00670f0792c1186e442e1dd28fe0326f2ee < 90d35d2b8e47afd68fe2a4dd0eeb60bc71641775 ; affected 8a39d00670f0792c1186e442e1dd28fe0326f2ee < e01071ea006c9b952125ed8b0cc90ac7bd356cce ; affected 8a39d00670f0792c1186e442e1dd28fe0326f2ee < 7099e7148f81c605bbc319b16ce0131540341560
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.8 ; unaffected 0 < 4.8 ; unaffected 5.10.261 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.212 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.178 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.145 ≤ 6.6.*

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