CVE-2026-46655 (GCVE-0-2026-46655)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-18 16:46
Modified
2026-09-23 19:15
CWE
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
virtio-win kvm-guest-drivers-windows Version: >= mm210, < mm320
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