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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-74312"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:58:11.395Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:55:32.188Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
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-2026-74312"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74312.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74312"
title: "vhost/vdpa: validate virtqueue index in mmap and fault paths"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvhost/vdpa: validate virtqueue index in mmap and fault paths\n\nvhost_vdpa_mmap() and vhost_vdpa_fault() use vma-\u003evm_pgoff as a\nvirtqueue index for get_vq_notification(), but they do not validate\nthat the index is smaller than v-\u003envqs.\n\nThe ioctl path already performs both a bounds check and\narray_index_nospec(), but the mmap/fault path only checks that the\nindex fits in u16. This allows an out-of-range queue index to reach\ndriver-specific get_vq_notification() callbacks.\n\nFix this by extracting a unified vhost_vdpa_get_vq_notification()\nhelper that validates the queue index against v-\u003envqs and applies\narray_index_nospec() before calling the driver callback. Both the\nmmap and fault paths use this helper, and the bounds checking is\nconsolidated into a single location.\n\nFrom source inspection, the most defensible impact is out-of-bounds\naccess in the callback path, potentially leading to invalid PFN\nremaps and crash/DoS."
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