CVE-2026-97995
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio_console: do not free control-out buffers on remove
__send_control_msg() publishes &portdev->cpkt as the control-out virtqueue cookie. remove_vqs() walks every virtqueue and passes leftover cookies to free_buf(), which treats them as struct port_buffer and reads sgpages.
If a control message is still on c_ovq when the device is unbound, free_buf() reads past the ports_device object.
KASAN reported slab-out-of-bounds in free_buf():
free_buf
remove_vqs
virtcons_remove
unbind_store
The object was the ports_device allocated in virtcons_probe().
Drain c_ovq without freeing. The packet lives in portdev and is released with it.
No affected software listed.
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/177ee901aa2bab02e7f1f8edbb814fd5e386ed62
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e40c69b9c3448b9c6609cd02013da593b2e123b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/894f98e73983f37354214a89a3a7fd35bf9e3072
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8f6cfc3eca79b8e108d0823756101e2f4f9d811f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a80c33488e0bbe642ed803b13a4ac8078a70b507
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1f39c2a676698cc64c8e105e08b25111a112ec6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e03522a990cd2e0f1a736eaa349a9df9ab8541c3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f620c40ea6862feed84deb105568b21ec53a7830
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