CVE-2026-43248 (GCVE-0-2026-43248)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:28 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:26
VLAI
Title
vhost: move vdpa group bound check to vhost_vdpa
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: bda324fd037a6b0d44da5699574ce741ca161bc4 , < ddb57354634b6ba851b79da45f1de42c646f27d0 (git)
Affected: bda324fd037a6b0d44da5699574ce741ca161bc4 , < 7441d35d14d9a3d66d925d90cb73c75394e6d454 (git)
Affected: bda324fd037a6b0d44da5699574ce741ca161bc4 , < 406db68f9cb976a8ddfafd631197264f2307e9c9 (git)
Affected: bda324fd037a6b0d44da5699574ce741ca161bc4 , < cd025c1e876b4e262e71398236a1550486a73ede (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 5.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.75 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.16 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.6 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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