# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-72380"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:56:12.866Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:44:45.153Z"
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-2026-72380"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72380.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72380"
title: "xen/pvcalls: bound backend response req_id before indexing rsp[]"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nxen/pvcalls: bound backend response req_id before indexing rsp[]\n\npvcalls_front_event_handler() takes req_id directly from the\nbackend-supplied ring response and uses it to index the fixed-size\nbedata-\u003ersp[] array for a memcpy() and a store, with no range check. A\nmalicious or buggy backend can set req_id past PVCALLS_NR_RSP_PER_RING\nand drive an out-of-bounds write past the bedata allocation.\n\nreq_id was also declared int while the wire field rsp-\u003ereq_id is u32, so\na range check on the signed value alone is insufficient: a backend\nreq_id of 0xffffffff becomes -1, passes a \u003e= PVCALLS_NR_RSP_PER_RING\ntest and indexes bedata-\u003ersp[-1]. Declare req_id as u32 so a single\nbound covers both ends.\n\nA backend that sends an out-of-range req_id has violated the wire\nprotocol, so rather than silently dropping the response, log once and\nstop trusting the backend: set bedata-\u003edisabled. The event handler then\nignores further responses, and the request paths that wait for a\nresponse return -EIO instead of blocking forever. This mirrors the\nfatal-error handling xen-netback uses (xenvif_fatal_tx_err()).\n\nThe pvcalls frontend currently trusts its backend, so this is not a\nclassic-Xen security issue, but it matters for hardening PV frontends\nagainst malicious backends (confidential and disaggregated deployments)."
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