CVE-2026-46655
virtio-win: Integer overflow causing a heap overflow in Viosock driver
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Sep 18, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 23, 2026
- Reserved
- May 15, 2026
Description
virtio-win provides Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU and KVM. From mm210 until mm320, the Viosock driver permits a low-privilege local process to submit an IOCTL_SELECT request with attacker-controlled VIRTIO_VSOCK_SELECT.Fdss[*].fd_count values that overflow the 32-bit sum used by VIOSockSelect for bounds checking. The wrapped sum can pass the FD_SETSIZE check even though an individual descriptor count is much larger than the expected limit. VIOSockSelectCopyFds then iterates using the unchecked count and writes beyond the allocated pPkt->Fds array in the NonPagedPool kernel heap. Successful exploitation can corrupt kernel memory and enable privilege escalation in a Windows guest running the driver. This issue is fixed in mm320.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
kvm-guest-drivers-windowsvirtio-win |
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References
- https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/security/advisories/GHSA-qrhp-4mhp-hjwh
- https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull/1568
- https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/commit/c6bef93d7909584bbda4e5c87603ea175825f342
- https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/releases/tag/mm320
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