CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46298

MediumCVSS 4.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.07%

0th percentile - higher than 0% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a race condition in the pseries/papr-hvpipe module can cause a deadlock when interrupts fire during ioctl or release handlers.

Risk Assessment

Deadlock may lead to system unavailability or failure of critical services.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that fixes this issue (spin_lock_irq{save|restore}).

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: pseries/papr-hvpipe: Fix race with interrupt handler While executing ->ioctl handler or ->release handler, if an interrupt fires on the same cpu, then we can enter into a deadlock. This patch fixes both these handlers to take spin_lock_irq{save|restore} versions of the lock to prevent this deadlock.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS