CVE-2026-45890 (GCVE-0-2026-45890)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:17 – Updated: 2026-05-27 12:17
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Title
xen-netback: reject zero-queue configuration from guest
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen-netback: reject zero-queue configuration from guest A malicious or buggy Xen guest can write "0" to the xenbus key "multi-queue-num-queues". The connect() function in the backend only validates the upper bound (requested_num_queues > xenvif_max_queues) but not zero, allowing requested_num_queues=0 to reach vzalloc(array_size(0, sizeof(struct xenvif_queue))), which triggers WARN_ON_ONCE(!size) in __vmalloc_node_range(). On systems with panic_on_warn=1, this allows a guest-to-host denial of service. The Xen network interface specification requires the queue count to be "greater than zero". Add a zero check to match the validation already present in xen-blkback, which has included this guard since its multi-queue support was added.
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Linux Linux Affected: 8d3d53b3e43363e79ab9a9ecc149b06c1314b25d , < 2993e0f904c45f8af12917344bb1cac7ccd05a60 (git)
Affected: 8d3d53b3e43363e79ab9a9ecc149b06c1314b25d , < 787bfa423228c4b02ba3368128f625d579085353 (git)
Affected: 8d3d53b3e43363e79ab9a9ecc149b06c1314b25d , < ce66d6786de45b7ed9cbbdc0988054bf09e58f54 (git)
Affected: 8d3d53b3e43363e79ab9a9ecc149b06c1314b25d , < 88b0fced1bbbfdb356a007592604008ffc93a6a1 (git)
Affected: 8d3d53b3e43363e79ab9a9ecc149b06c1314b25d , < ec4859ac5c933e3315543a61adc1ca4358006a41 (git)
Affected: 8d3d53b3e43363e79ab9a9ecc149b06c1314b25d , < 654780dee9eae419e1648ea58462c4efe54518fa (git)
Affected: 8d3d53b3e43363e79ab9a9ecc149b06c1314b25d , < d99f69ddc70fd9f4b8148add62209a1a8eb5c615 (git)
Affected: 8d3d53b3e43363e79ab9a9ecc149b06c1314b25d , < 6d1dc8014334c7fb25719999bca84d811e60a559 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 3.16
Unaffected: 0 , < 3.16 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.252 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.202 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.165 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.128 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.14 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.4 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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