CVE-2026-72283

Summary

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

KVM: x86: Nullify irqfd->producer if updating IRTE for bypass fails

Nullify irqfd->producer if updating the IRTE for bypass fails, as leaving a dangling pointer will result in a use-after-free if the irqfd is reachable through KVM's routing, but the producer is freed separately. E.g. for VFIO PCI, the producer is embedded in struct "vfio_pci_irq_ctx" and freed when the vector is disabled, which can happen independent of routing updates.

[sean: drop PPC change, massage changelog]

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux77e1b8332d1d7aa786f7515e9bd4055def6a1e06 < d1379888cc4230bac647ec24ab83306afbd03e88affected
LinuxLinux77e1b8332d1d7aa786f7515e9bd4055def6a1e06 < d5560b6569cd05ba72c6b33427fbabc6ec46b8cfaffected
LinuxLinux77e1b8332d1d7aa786f7515e9bd4055def6a1e06 < ed446e8aa894883c08892cfee69782fdf8f6c3caaffected
LinuxLinux6.17affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.17unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.40 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

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