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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64292"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:49:31.325Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:52:49.390Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
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-2026-64292"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64292.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64292"
title: "iommufd: Move vevent memory allocation outside spinlock"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommufd: Move vevent memory allocation outside spinlock\n\nThe veventq memory allocation happens inside the spinlock. Given its depth\nis decided by the user space, this leaves a vulnerability, where userspace\ncan allocate large queues to exhaust atomic memory reserves.\n\nMove the allocation outside the spinlock and use GFP_NOWAIT, which can fail\nfast under memory pressure without dipping into the GFP_ATOMIC reserves or\ndirect-reclaiming from the threaded IRQ handler. On allocation failure,\nqueue the lost_events_header (so userspace learns of the drop) and return\n-ENOMEM so the caller learns of the kernel-side memory pressure.\n\nThis is intentionally distinct from the queue-overflow path, which also\nqueues the lost_events_header but returns 0: a full queue is an expected\nuserspace-pacing condition rather than a kernel error.\n\nA subsequent change will cap the upper bound of the veventq_depth."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e36ba5ab808ef6237c3148d469c8238674230e2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"779480ea79551c31964e74b9aef0e730faa3aa11"},{"version":"e36ba5ab808ef6237c3148d469c8238674230e2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6c5fc40200cd0a87d66a368eee00df4d1cca946e"},{"version":"e36ba5ab808ef6237c3148d469c8238674230e2b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"47443565d10c51366c9382dbc8597cd6c460b8a2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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