CVE-2026-43248 (GCVE-0-2026-43248)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-06 11:28
Modified
2026-10-21 12:40
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost: move vdpa group bound check to vhost_vdpa Remove duplication by consolidating these here. This reduces the posibility of a parent driver missing them. While we're at it, fix a bug in vdpa_sim where a valid ASID can be assigned to a group equal to ngroups, causing an out of bound write.
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Linux Linux Version: bda324fd037a6b0d44da5699574ce741ca161bc4
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