{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2026-72283","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2026-08-09T03:40:39.917Z","datePublished":"2026-08-15T05:55:06.959Z","dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:42:18.185Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-08-17T05:42:18.185Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86: Nullify irqfd->producer if updating IRTE for bypass fails\n\nNullify irqfd->producer if updating the IRTE for bypass fails, as leaving a\ndangling pointer will result in a use-after-free if the irqfd is reachable\nthrough KVM's routing, but the producer is freed separately.  E.g. for VFIO\nPCI, the producer is embedded in struct \"vfio_pci_irq_ctx\" and freed when\nthe vector is disabled, which can happen independent of routing updates.\n\n[sean: drop PPC change, massage changelog]"}],"metrics":[{"cvssV3_1":{"version":"3.1","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","baseScore":8.8,"baseSeverity":"HIGH"},"scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"AV:L - The bug is reached only through local KVM VM ioctls (KVM_IRQFD, KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING) and VFIO PCI IRQ ioctls that wire an irqfd consumer to a VFIO MSI/MSI-X producer; there is no network, adjacent-radio, or physical-device attack surface.\nAC:L - An attacker who can open the VM and VFIO fds controls both sides of the failure window (provoke kvm_pi_update_irte() to fail during irq_bypass_add_producer, disable the VFIO vector to free vfio_pci_irq_ctx, then change GSI routing) and can retry routing/affinity until the dangling irqfd->producer is dereferenced.\nPR:L - Exploitation requires only local access to KVM and VFIO device nodes to issue the relevant ioctls (typical for QEMU/libvirt kvm-group operators or cloud tenants running VMs with PCI passthrough), not full init-namespace root or capabilities obtainable only inside unprivileged user namespaces.\nUI:N - The use-after-free is triggered entirely by the attacker's own ioctl sequence and subsequent routing updates; no victim login, file open, mount, or other interactive action is required.\nS:C - The dangling producer is used to update IOMMU posted-interrupt IRTEs for VFIO-assigned PCI MSIs, crossing the guest/host device-assignment boundary; corrupting interrupt remapping can compromise the host kernel and enable VM escape rather than staying within the attacker's VM scope.\nC:H - This is a kernel heap use-after-free on irqfd->producer embedded in vfio_pci_irq_ctx; freed-object reuse supplies attacker-influenced host_irq values to irq_set_vcpu_affinity(), enabling arbitrary kernel memory reads and pointer disclosure, not merely a bounded leak.\nI:H - UAF of the VFIO irq producer plus mistaken irq_set_vcpu_affinity()/IRTE reprogramming with a stale or attacker-controlled IRQ number can corrupt host kernel heap metadata and IOMMU interrupt tables, providing a path to arbitrary write and code execution.\nA:H - Dereferencing the freed vfio_pci_irq_ctx from kvm_pi_update_irte() during kvm_irq_routing_update() can immediately BUG/WARN/oops the host kernel; even attempted exploitation of the UAF commonly crashes the host."}]}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["arch/x86/kvm/irq.c"],"versions":[{"version":"77e1b8332d1d7aa786f7515e9bd4055def6a1e06","lessThan":"d1379888cc4230bac647ec24ab83306afbd03e88","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"77e1b8332d1d7aa786f7515e9bd4055def6a1e06","lessThan":"d5560b6569cd05ba72c6b33427fbabc6ec46b8cf","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"77e1b8332d1d7aa786f7515e9bd4055def6a1e06","lessThan":"ed446e8aa894883c08892cfee69782fdf8f6c3ca","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["arch/x86/kvm/irq.c"],"versions":[{"version":"6.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"6.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.18.40","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.1.5","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"7.2","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":"6.17","versionEndExcluding":"6.18.40"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.17","versionEndExcluding":"7.1.5"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"6.17","versionEndExcluding":"7.2"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1379888cc4230bac647ec24ab83306afbd03e88"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5560b6569cd05ba72c6b33427fbabc6ec46b8cf"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed446e8aa894883c08892cfee69782fdf8f6c3ca"}],"title":"KVM: x86: Nullify irqfd->producer if updating IRTE for bypass fails","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}