# 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-2026-74580"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-21T16:31:54.076Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T19:05:57.882Z"
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-2026-74580"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-74580.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-74580"
title: "vhost: reset the vring metadata cache on vring reconfiguration"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvhost: reset the vring metadata cache on vring reconfiguration\n\nvq-\u003emeta_iotlb[] caches the vhost_iotlb_map that backs each vring\nmetadata region, and iotlb_access_ok() returns early on a cache hit,\ntaking the hit as proof that the region has already been validated:\n\n\tif (vhost_vq_meta_fetch(vq, addr, len, type))\n\t\treturn true;\n\nThe cache is reset on VHOST_IOTLB_UPDATE and VHOST_IOTLB_INVALIDATE, on\ndevice IOTLB (re)initialisation and on vq reset, but not when\nVHOST_SET_VRING_ADDR replaces vq-\u003edesc, vq-\u003eavail and vq-\u003eused, nor when\nVHOST_SET_VRING_NUM changes the region sizes.\n\nWith a device IOTLB attached both ioctls are accepted while the vq is\nlive, and neither validates the addresses at ioctl time: vq_access_ok()\nand vq_log_used_access_ok() return true early because the addresses are\nGIOVAs, deferring validation to prefetch time.  Once the cache has been\npopulated that deferred validation no longer runs -- vq_meta_prefetch()\nhits the stale entry and returns true -- and vhost_vq_meta_fetch() keeps\ntranslating through the old mapping as\n\n\tmap-\u003eaddr + addr - map-\u003estart\n\nfor an address the mapping no longer covers.  vhost_copy_to_user() and\nvhost_copy_from_user() consume the result with __copy_to_user() and\n__copy_from_user(), which do not check it either, so a subsequent used\nring update or descriptor fetch accesses memory outside the region the\nIOTLB actually maps.\n\nReset the metadata cache whenever the vring is reconfigured, so the new\naddresses are pushed back through iotlb_access_ok()'s slow path."
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