CVE-2026-97990

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Count the TX\nerror and complete the consumed TX descriptor with zero bytes.\n\nI found this bug myself, though the patch was written with AI assistance."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.5, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The malformed input is a virtqueue TX descriptor with an unmapped address, written into the vring by whoever drives the vdpa_sim_net device (a guest via vhost-vdpa or a local vhost-vdpa user). vdpasim_net_work() processes it and no network protocol carries it.\nAC:H - Once reached, the failed vringh_iov_pull_iotlb() is deterministic. But it requires an admin to create a vdpa_sim_net device (a test-only simulator under RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU) and assign it to the attacker's VM or process, a configuration the attacker cannot produce.\nPR:L - Device creation needs GENL_ADMIN_PERM in init_net (not reachable via user namespaces). The attacker is the guest or process given the device, which only needs ordinary control of its own virtqueues and no host privileges.\nUI:N - The attacker queues a broadcast TX frame, then a TX descriptor that fails IOTLB translation, plus large RX descriptors, all on their own rings. No victim action is needed.\nS:C - A guest driving vdpa_sim_net through vhost-vdpa causes the host kernel to copy host heap memory into guest-visible RX buffers, crossing the VM-to-host boundary.\nC:H - The negative read, cast to size_t, is passed to vringh_iov_push_iotlb(). It copies from the PAGE_SIZE net->buffer up to the attacker-sized RX iov, leaking adjacent host kernel heap (an out-of-bounds read not limited to a few bytes) into attacker memory.\nI:N - The overlong copy only reads kernel memory and writes into the attacker's own RX buffers; no kernel memory is written. The only other effect is corrupted tx_bytes statistics.\nA:H - A large RX descriptor chain makes the out-of-bounds read of net->buffer run into unmapped memory, oopsing the host kernel and taking down every guest on it."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_net.c"], "versions": [{"version": "cfe226892913a448e83e7a19db93862baa3cb99c", "lessThan": "1b803d382cde6d85755b363f22010208a04ba40a", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "cfe226892913a448e83e7a19db93862baa3cb99c", "lessThan": "c001abcde865b74231da8f1412c3217dbf66781e", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "cfe226892913a448e83e7a19db93862baa3cb99c", "lessThan": "3af20238a09ca180d66623e3bed16b64e9975f39", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "cfe226892913a448e83e7a19db93862baa3cb99c", "lessThan": "2bbf1c1f69991e28787e02b0a2f826289d5fc730", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "cfe226892913a448e83e7a19db93862baa3cb99c", "lessThan": "0d195797a80b77f2ec56718cd26d3ee65d0093e8", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["drivers/vdpa/vdpa_sim/vdpa_sim_net.c"], "versions": [{"version": "5.19", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "5.19", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.6.158", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.12.111", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18.53", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.7", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.19", "versionEndExcluding": "6.6.158"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.19", "versionEndExcluding": "6.12.111"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.19", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.53"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.19", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.7"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "5.19", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b803d382cde6d85755b363f22010208a04ba40a"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c001abcde865b74231da8f1412c3217dbf66781e"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3af20238a09ca180d66623e3bed16b64e9975f39"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2bbf1c1f69991e28787e02b0a2f826289d5fc730"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d195797a80b77f2ec56718cd26d3ee65d0093e8"}], "title": "vdpa_sim_net: check TX pull result before RX copy", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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