# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46034"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:56:43.389Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-14T17:49:29.082Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46034"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46034.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46034"
title: "vfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path\n\nAdd validation to ensure MSI is configured before accessing cdx_irqs\narray in vfio_cdx_set_msi_trigger(). Without this check, userspace\ncan trigger a NULL pointer dereference by calling VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS\nwith VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_BOOL or VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_NONE flags before\never setting up interrupts via VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_EVENTFD.\n\nThe vfio_cdx_msi_enable() function allocates the cdx_irqs array and\nsets config_msi to 1 only when called through the EVENTFD path. The\ntrigger loop (for DATA_BOOL/DATA_NONE) assumed this had already been\ndone, but there was no enforcement of this call ordering.\n\nThis matches the protection used in the PCI VFIO driver where\nvfio_pci_set_msi_trigger() checks irq_is() before the trigger loop."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"51bf7638f33aece41cb3f4cbeb942cc52950e329"},{"version":"848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5d6c349c9823eb819fed8b537b088cf38126018c"},{"version":"848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"338a736aaf15e8ba3635ce20b29af5b8fc15e66a"},{"version":"848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5ea5880764cbb164afb17a62e76ca75dc371409d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.86","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.27","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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