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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-64457"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-07-25T08:51:25.364Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:56:01.747Z"
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-2026-64457"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64457.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64457"
title: "virtio_pci: fix vq info pointer lookup via wrong index"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio_pci: fix vq info pointer lookup via wrong index\n\nUnbinding a virtio balloon device:\n\n    echo virtio0 \u003e /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/virtio_balloon/unbind\n\ntriggers a NULL pointer dereference. The dmesg says:\n\n    BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\n    [...]\n    RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x5/0xf0\n    Call Trace:\n    \u003cTASK\u003e\n    vp_del_vqs+0x121/0x230\n    remove_common+0x135/0x150\n    virtballoon_remove+0xee/0x100\n    virtio_dev_remove+0x3b/0x80\n    device_release_driver_internal+0x187/0x2c0\n    unbind_store+0xb9/0xe0\n    kernfs_fop_write_iter.llvm.11660790530567441834+0xf6/0x180\n    vfs_write+0x2a9/0x3b0\n    ksys_write+0x5c/0xd0\n    do_syscall_64+0x54/0x230\n    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x29/0x31\n    [...]\n    \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nThe virtio_balloon device registers 5 queues (inflate, deflate, stats,\nfree_page, reporting) but only the first two are unconditional. The\nstats, free_page and reporting queues are each conditional on their\nrespective feature bits. When any of these features are absent, the\ncorresponding vqs_info entry has name == NULL, creating holes in the\narray.\n\nThe root cause is an indexing mismatch introduced when vq info storage\nwas changed to be passed as an argument. vp_find_vqs_msix() and\nvp_find_vqs_intx() store the info pointer at vp_dev-\u003evqs[i], where 'i'\nis the caller's sparse array index. However, the virtqueue itself gets\nvq-\u003eindex assigned from queue_idx, a dense index that skips NULL\nentries. When holes exist, 'i' and queue_idx diverge. Later,\nvp_del_vqs() looks up info via vp_dev-\u003evqs[vq-\u003eindex] using the dense\nindex into the sparsely-populated array, and hits NULL.\n\nFix this by storing info at vp_dev-\u003evqs[queue_idx] instead of\nvp_dev-\u003evqs[i], so the store index matches the lookup index\n(vq-\u003eindex). Apply the fix to both the MSIX and INTX paths."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"89a1c435aec269d109ed46ca7bbb10fa8edf7ace","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"41e6dc1a10036c9f47057033f19af7e52ec464b6"},{"version":"89a1c435aec269d109ed46ca7bbb10fa8edf7ace","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"075bc3c779e1ea7294afabdcb7e0a49536959b28"},{"version":"89a1c435aec269d109ed46ca7bbb10fa8edf7ace","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"64a4c0befa77bcc01076aec9f93863ffd4ed06b7"},{"version":"89a1c435aec269d109ed46ca7bbb10fa8edf7ace","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f7d380fb525c13bdd114369a1979c80c346e6abc"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","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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