CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64475

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel's vfio/pci driver, after a reorder in vfio_pci_core_register_device(), the VGA arbiter client registration is not unwound on failure. This can leave a callback with a freed vdev cookie, which becomes unsafe when the callback follows drvdata to the vfio device.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability can lead to a use-after-free in the kernel driver, potentially causing system crash or privilege escalation.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that adds the required VGA unwind callout on registration failure.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/pci: Release the VGA arbiter client on register_device() failure The re-order in the Fixes commit below displaced vfio_pci_vga_init() as the last failure point of what is now vfio_pci_core_register_device() without introducing an unwind for the VGA arbiter registration. In current kernels this is mostly benign because vfio_pci_set_decode() only uses pci_dev state, but the original failure path could leave a callback with a freed vdev cookie. The stale registration also becomes unsafe again once the callback follows drvdata to the vfio device. Add the required VGA unwind callout.

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