CVE-2026-46034

vfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path

published May 27, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path

Add validation to ensure MSI is configured before accessing cdx_irqs

array in vfio_cdx_set_msi_trigger(). Without this check, userspace

can trigger a NULL pointer dereference by calling VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS

with VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_BOOL or VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_NONE flags before

ever setting up interrupts via VFIO_IRQ_SET_DATA_EVENTFD.

The vfio_cdx_msi_enable() function allocates the cdx_irqs array and

sets config_msi to 1 only when called through the EVENTFD path. The

trigger loop (for DATA_BOOL/DATA_NONE) assumed this had already been

done, but there was no enforcement of this call ordering.

This matches the protection used in the PCI VFIO driver where

vfio_pci_set_msi_trigger() checks irq_is() before the trigger loop.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00162 · 5.0th percentile
Published
2026-05-27T12:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAY 12:56Z
    vfio/cdx: Fix NULL pointer dereference in interrupt trigger path
    cvelistv5