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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-46036"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-27T12:56:46.381Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:29:15.525Z"
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-2026-46036"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-46036.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46036"
title: "vfio/cdx: Serialize VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS with a per-device mutex"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvfio/cdx: Serialize VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS with a per-device mutex\n\nvfio_cdx_set_msi_trigger() reads vdev-\u003econfig_msi and operates on the\nvdev-\u003ecdx_irqs array based on its value, but provides no serialization\nagainst concurrent VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS ioctls.  Two callers can race\nsuch that one observes config_msi as set while another clears it and\nfrees cdx_irqs via vfio_cdx_msi_disable(), resulting in a use-after-free\nof the cdx_irqs array.\n\nAdd a cdx_irqs_lock mutex to struct vfio_cdx_device and acquire it in\nvfio_cdx_set_msi_trigger(), which is the single chokepoint through\nwhich all updates to config_msi, cdx_irqs, and msi_count flow, covering\nboth the ioctl path and the close-device cleanup path.  This keeps the\ntest of config_msi atomic with the subsequent enable, disable, or\ntrigger operations.\n\nDrop the pre-call !cdx_irqs test from vfio_cdx_irqs_cleanup() as part\nof this change: the optimization it provided is redundant with the\n!config_msi early-return inside vfio_cdx_msi_disable(), and leaving the\ntest in place would be an unsynchronized read of state the new lock is\nmeant to protect."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ddf96e23c366c566283fce8377928851fa7f5e81"},{"version":"848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7b436ade16cc81095d79b79f8efa3af0a4f5c5a2"},{"version":"848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7530f34ec0ca1438d45a75dcb43183a1cc92eced"},{"version":"848e447e000c41894ff931dc7c004fd42c8840f8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"670e8864b1a218d72f08db40d0103adf38fa1d9b"}],"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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