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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93827"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T16:03:05.795Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-25T12:43:36.887Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-93827"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93827.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93827"
title: "virtio-fs: avoid double-free on failed queue setup"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirtio-fs: avoid double-free on failed queue setup\n\nvirtio_fs_setup_vqs() allocates fs-\u003evqs and fs-\u003emq_map before calling\nvirtio_find_vqs(). If virtio_find_vqs() fails, the error path frees both\npointers and returns an error to virtio_fs_probe().\n\nvirtio_fs_probe() then drops the last kobject reference, and\nvirtio_fs_ktype_release() frees fs-\u003evqs and fs-\u003emq_map again. This leaves\ndangling pointers in struct virtio_fs and can trigger a double-free during\nprobe failure cleanup.\n\nSet fs-\u003evqs and fs-\u003emq_map to NULL immediately after kfree() in the\nvirtio_fs_setup_vqs() error path so that the later kobject release sees an\nuninitialized state and kfree(NULL) becomes harmless.\n\nThis can be reproduced when a broken virtio-fs device advertises more\nrequest queues than the transport actually provides. In that case\nvirtio_find_vqs() fails while setting up the extra queue, and the probe\npath reaches the double-free cleanup sequence."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a8f62f50b4e4ea92a938fca2ec1bd108d7f210e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3fbc5ee776fefbc6ea34d2518f1f5f90aa2e1dad"},{"version":"a8f62f50b4e4ea92a938fca2ec1bd108d7f210e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"20ef4739b329bb09cff11dd2458795a50674658e"},{"version":"a8f62f50b4e4ea92a938fca2ec1bd108d7f210e9","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6af3330ec5d5fb8c06c04eb520a71cf73ea5a765"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.9","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.9"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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