In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: avoid refilling the RX queue after teardown Commit b9…
CVE-2026-74613 · published 22 Aug 2026
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 5.3
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock/virtio: avoid refilling the RX queue after teardown
Commit b917507e5ad9 ("vsock/virtio: stop workers during the .remove()")
made the RX worker jump to its common exit when rx_run is clear. That
exit still refills the RX queue when the buffer count is low, so work
queued across virtio_vsock_vqs_del() can add buffers after the virtqueues
have been deleted.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in virtqueue_add_sgs
Read of size 4 by task kworker/0:1
Workqueue: virtio_vsock virtio_transport_rx_work
Call Trace:
virtqueue_add_sgs (drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:2796)
virtio_vsock_rx_fill (net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:332)
virtio_transport_rx_work (net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:701)
process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3314)
worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3478)
kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436)
ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158)
ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245)
...
Freed by task 141:
kfree (mm/slub.c:6566)
vp_del_vq (drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:259)
vp_del_vqs (drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:285)
virtio_vsock_freeze (net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:912)
virtio_device_freeze (drivers/virtio/virtio.c:658)
virtio_pci_freeze (drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:601)
pci_pm_freeze (drivers/pci/pci-driver.c:1098)
device_suspend (drivers/base/power/main.c:1968)
Kernel panic - not syncing: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...
Jump to a no-refill exit when rx_run is clear, leaving the normal exit
to replenish a running queue.
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1aa21e7c8702a7c37cd7d3cace1a652cfa5e8171
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/38c7763fdc533edb34dc8f4489c260e8ba2ccae9
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/4d37e3525cc346a1421c1bdeaad5848e249fc60c
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d80a04129a6c27a690cb69de3fe3f50be5aa8b9
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a309b74e3fc052352ab778500449cb9c3853c363
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a31e0ad444698d8aa7534a0f89fda543730f97a5
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7658508f5fe8f1077a65e8cb9535d3426f37a2f
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/e82a5faea2e3886dfb2a65ce092a132e7e896915
Merged from NVD. Last updated 24 Oct 2026. All vulnerabilities · RSS · JSON