xen/pvcalls: bound backend response req_id before indexing rsp[]
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: xen/pvcalls: bound backend response req_id before indexing rsp[] pvcalls_front_event_handler() takes req_id directly from the backend-supplied ring response and uses it to index the fixed-size bedata->rsp[] array for a memcpy() and a store, with no range check. A malicious or buggy backend can set req_id past PVCALLS_NR_RSP_PER_RING and drive an out-of-bounds write past the bedata allocation. req_id was also declared int while the wire field rsp->req_id is u32, so a range check on the signed value alone is insufficient: a backend req_id of 0xffffffff becomes -1, passes a >= PVCALLS_NR_RSP_PER_RING test and indexes bedata->rsp[-1]. Declare req_id as u32 so a single bound covers both ends. A backend that sends an out-of-range req_id has violated the wire protocol, so rather than silently dropping the response, log once and stop trusting the backend: set bedata->disabled. The event handler then ignores further responses, and the request paths that wait for a response return -EIO instead of blocking forever. This mirrors the fatal-error handling xen-netback uses (xenvif_fatal_tx_err()). The pvcalls frontend currently trusts its backend, so this is not a classic-Xen security issue, but it matters for hardening PV frontends against malicious backends (confidential and disaggregated deployments).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.191, 6.6.160, 6.12.114, 6.18.57, 7.1.5, 7.2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 5 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-72380
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-44h4-v8mw-w74q
- 2026-10-16 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@bc8f2d1c6f7cf6e6551c00eb582baf4b52a04794 · CNA
- 2026-10-16 1 new reference · CNA
- 2026-10-21 Fix available: Linux/[email protected], Linux/[email protected], Linux/Linux@72e27ef70a20298e60a1de438f3628c515dea895 +1 · CNA
- 2026-10-21 2 new references · CNA
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: Linux/Linux@4aaf7f32f1569e2c0475e073b8d7ec63b231d4c6, Linux/[email protected] · CNA
- 2026-10-30 1 new reference · CNA
References
Other 6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4aaf7f32f1569e2c0475e073b8d7ec63b231d4c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/72e27ef70a20298e60a1de438f3628c515dea895
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ede7a60b046d8b7288651c55198574ed7c259da7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bc8f2d1c6f7cf6e6551c00eb582baf4b52a04794
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1297a9e2fd6ce08678b370d41bc980ca798f809
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d33846c8dcc06b83b7acdeac1e8bfbb5c0c26cb2
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Sources
- CVE-2026-72380 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-72380 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-44h4-v8mw-w74q · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-72380 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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