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          "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
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          "programFiles": [
            "drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c"
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          "vendor": "Linux",
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            {
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              "status": "unaffected",
              "version": "7.2",
              "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
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        }
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        {
          "nodes": [
            {
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      "descriptions": [
        {
          "lang": "en",
          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvirt: acrn: Fix irqfd use-after-free during eventfd shutdown\n\nacrn_irqfd_deassign() and the eventfd EPOLLHUP wakeup can race and free\nthe same struct hsm_irqfd:\n\n  CPU0                                 CPU1\n  ----                                 ----\n  eventfd_release()\n    wake_up_poll(EPOLLHUP)\n      hsm_irqfd_wakeup()\n        queue_work(\u0026irqfd-\u003eshutdown)\n                                       acrn_irqfd_deassign()\n                                         hsm_irqfd_shutdown()\n                                           list_del_init()\n                                           eventfd_ctx_remove_wait_queue()\n                                           eventfd_ctx_put()\n                                         kfree(irqfd)\n  hsm_irqfd_shutdown_work()\n    container_of(work, ..., shutdown)\n    irqfd-\u003evm                  \u003c-- use-after-free\n\nThe deassign path freed the irqfd while a shutdown work item was\nalready queued by EPOLLHUP (or vice versa), so the work item could\nresurrect a dangling pointer through container_of().\n\nSwitch to the lifetime model used by KVM irqfds:\n\n - Deassign/deinit only deactivate the irqfd: remove it from vm-\u003eirqfds\n   under irqfds_lock and queue the cleanup work.\n - hsm_irqfd_shutdown_work() becomes the sole owner that unhooks the\n   eventfd waitqueue entry, drops the eventfd reference and frees the\n   irqfd.\n - A new HSM_IRQFD_FLAG_SHUTDOWN bit guarded by test_and_set_bit()\n   ensures the cleanup work is queued at most once, no matter how many\n   of {EPOLLHUP, deassign, deinit} fire concurrently.  This is safe to\n   call from the waitqueue callback, which runs with wqh-\u003elock held and\n   IRQs disabled and therefore cannot take irqfds_lock.\n - acrn_irqfd_deassign() flushes vm-\u003eirqfd_wq before returning so the\n   eventfd is fully detached on return.  acrn_irqfd_deinit() deactivates\n   every irqfd, flushes the workqueue and only then destroys it, so no\n   path can queue_work() onto a torn-down workqueue.\n - acrn_irqfd_assign() now installs the eventfd waitqueue entry and\n   publishes the irqfd to vm-\u003eirqfds under irqfds_lock, so the irqfd is\n   never visible to deassign/deinit before its waitqueue entry is in\n   place, and any EPOLLHUP that fires in the assign window queues\n   cleanup work that blocks on irqfds_lock until publication is done."
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      ],
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        {
          "cvssV3_1": {
            "baseScore": 7.8,
            "baseSeverity": "HIGH",
            "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
            "version": "3.1"
          },
          "scenarios": [
            {
              "lang": "en",
              "value": "AV:L - The UAF is reached from ioctl(ACRN_IOCTL_IRQFD) on /dev/acrn_hsm: acrn_dev_ioctl() copy_from_user()s struct acrn_irqfd and calls acrn_irqfd_config() \u2192 acrn_irqfd_assign()/acrn_irqfd_deassign(), while close() of that eventfd hits eventfd_release() \u2192 hsm_irqfd_wakeup(). No remote protocol carries the fd, flags, or EPOLLHUP.\nAC:L - The attacker owns both sides: one thread ioctl(ACRN_IOCTL_IRQFD) with ACRN_IRQFD_FLAG_DEASSIGN so acrn_irqfd_deassign() \u2192 hsm_irqfd_shutdown() kfree()s the hsm_irqfd, while another close()s a dup of the same eventfd so eventfd_release() \u2192 wake_up_poll(EPOLLHUP) \u2192 hsm_irqfd_wakeup() queues hsm_irqfd_shutdown_work(); the window is retryable.\nPR:L - acrn_dev_open(), acrn_dev_ioctl() and acrn_irqfd_config() have no capable()/CAP_* gate; only /dev/acrn_hsm DAC applies. ACRN Service VM deployments grant that node to the deprivileged acrn-dm device-model account (as with /dev/kvm), so a local user with that fd can CREATE_VM and IRQFD without init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacker opens /dev/acrn_hsm, ioctl(ACRN_IOCTL_CREATE_VM) then ACRN_IOCTL_IRQFD assign, and races close() of its own eventfd against deassign (or acrn_dev_release() \u2192 acrn_irqfd_deinit()); no other user must mount, open, or click.\nS:U - hsm_irqfd_shutdown_work() uses the freed struct hsm_irqfd in the Service VM kernel that runs acrn_dev_ioctl(). The attacker is already a Service VM process issuing HSM ioctls, not a User VM guest crossing into the ACRN hypervisor, so impact stays in one kernel authority.\nC:H - After acrn_irqfd_deassign() kfree()s the hsm_irqfd, hsm_irqfd_shutdown_work() container_of()s the queued work_struct and reads irqfd-\u003evm (and later irqfd-\u003eeventfd) from the freed kmalloc object. Reclaiming that slot lets the attacker disclose reallocated kernel heap through those dangling loads.\nI:H - The same UAF lets hsm_irqfd_shutdown_work() mutex_lock(\u0026irqfd-\u003evm-\u003eirqfds_lock), list_del_init(\u0026irqfd-\u003elist) and eventfd_ctx_put(irqfd-\u003eeventfd) on attacker-reclaimed hsm_irqfd fields, which is an arbitrary write / wait-queue function-pointer hijack, plus a second kfree of the sprayed object.\nA:H - hsm_irqfd_shutdown_work() loading irqfd-\u003evm after hsm_irqfd_shutdown() kfree()s it oopses on a dangling pointer or corrupts the irqfds mutex/list; the EPOLLHUP work versus deassign kfree race in the commit is a Service VM kernel panic even without a successful spray."
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        "dateUpdated": "2026-09-25T05:10:50.060Z",
        "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "shortName": "Linux"
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      "references": [
        {
          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8156aacfcabb81f52c20ef89094945434d08079"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/666c7f9e07925aa0863348f960e09bb89f8f05a3"
        }
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      "title": "virt: acrn: Fix irqfd use-after-free during eventfd shutdown",
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    "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
    "assignerShortName": "Linux",
    "cveId": "CVE-2026-97478",
    "datePublished": "2026-09-24T16:04:20.263Z",
    "dateReserved": "2026-09-24T16:01:01.149Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2026-09-25T05:10:50.060Z",
    "state": "PUBLISHED"
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