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FKIE_CVE-2026-74311

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-15 06:22 - Updated: 2026-08-17 06:19

Severity

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtio: rtc: tear down old virtqueues before restore virtio_device_restore() resets the device and restores the negotiated features before calling ->restore(). viortc_freeze() intentionally leaves the existing virtqueues in place so the alarm queue can still wake the system, but viortc_restore() immediately calls viortc_init_vqs() without first deleting those old queues. If virtqueue reinitialization fails on virtio-pci, the transport error path can run vp_del_vqs() against a newly allocated vp_dev->vqs array while vdev->vqs still contains the old virtqueues. vp_del_vqs() then looks up queue state through the new array and can dereference a NULL info pointer in vp_del_vq(), crashing the guest kernel during restore. This can also happen during a non-faulty reinitialization, when one of the vp_find_vqs_msix() attempts is unsuccessful before a later attempt would succeed. Delete the stale virtqueues before rebuilding them. If restore fails before virtio_device_ready(), reuse the remove path to stop the device. Once the device is ready, return errors directly instead of deleting the virtqueues again.

References

	URL	Tags
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/548d2208455f14e6121404c6e30e997bfe0cd264
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79366023aa891ca31376021a7bccff6384ca1ff1
	416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aebebd1e9d70b650fc9e877082e0134edcf511da

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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  "lastModified": "2026-08-17T06:19:25.340",
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CVE-2026-74311 (GCVE-0-2026-74311)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:58 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:45

Title

virtio: rtc: tear down old virtqueues before restore

Summary

Severity

7.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79366023aa891ca31…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aebebd1e9d70b650f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/548d2208455f14e61…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 0623c759276885c3ae88197ba6fb5c9c6ba8612f , < 79366023aa891ca31376021a7bccff6384ca1ff1 (git) Affected: 0623c759276885c3ae88197ba6fb5c9c6ba8612f , < aebebd1e9d70b650fc9e877082e0134edcf511da (git) Affected: 0623c759276885c3ae88197ba6fb5c9c6ba8612f , < 548d2208455f14e6121404c6e30e997bfe0cd264 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.40 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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