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TI-2026-34300 Aliases CVE-2026-46655

virtio-win: Integer overflow causing a heap overflow in Viosock driver

Priority HIGH 69CWE-122Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Local
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Partial Red Hat: 5 fixed, 1 without a fix

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-122 and the CVSS impact.

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00175 7th percentileScored 2026-11-08
Fix Partial Red Hat: 5 fixed, 1 without a fix

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
virtio-winkvm-guest-drivers-windows>= mm210, < mm320—No fix listedCNA
  • kvm-guest-drivers-windows Vendorvirtio-win Affected >= mm210, < mm320 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

ProductStatusPlan or fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8AffectedNo fix planned: Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10)Fixed—
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9)Fixed—
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.2)Fixed—
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0)Fixed—
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6)Fixed—
Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-46655
  2. 2026-11-04 Fix available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10), Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream E4S (v.9.2), Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.6) · Red Hat
  3. 2026-11-05 Fix available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9), Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0) · Red Hat

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