virtio-win: Integer overflow causing a heap overflow in Viosock driver
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
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| virtio-win | kvm-guest-drivers-windows | >= mm210, < mm320 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- 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 →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No 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
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-46655
- 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
- 2026-11-05 Fix available: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9), Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 10.0) · Red Hat
References
Other 4
- https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/security/advisories/GHSA-qrhp-4mhp-hjwh
- https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull/1568
- https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/commit/c6bef93d7909584bbda4e5c87603ea175825f342
- https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/releases/tag/mm320
Sources
- CVE-2026-46655 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-46655 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-46655 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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