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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

Affected Products

ProductVersions
kvm-guest-drivers-windowsvirtio-win
  • >= mm210, < mm320Affected

References

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