CVE-2026-97989
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vduse: validate virtqueue alignment vduse_validate_config() only checks the upper bound of vq_align. Invalid values can therefore reach vring_create_virtqueue_map(). The split-ring helpers use align - 1 as a bit mask, so the alignment must be a non-zero power of two. A zero value makes vring_size() drop the descriptor and available-ring part and vring_init() leave the used ring pointer NULL. The VIRTIO spec requires the used ring to start at an address aligned to at least 4 bytes. Reject values below VRING_USED_ALIGN_SIZE as well as non-power-of-two values before they reach the virtio ring helpers. Opening a virtio-net device created with vq_align=0 triggered: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in virtqueue_kick_prepare_split+0xe3/0x100 Read of size 2 at addr 0000000000000000 by task systemd-network/1062 Call Trace (relevant frames): dump_stack_lvl print_report kasan_report __asan_load2 virtqueue_kick_prepare_split+0xe3/0x100 virtqueue_kick_prepare+0x40/0x60 try_fill_recv+0x857/0x1250 virtnet_open+0x189/0x460 __dev_open+0x225/0x390 __dev_change_flags+0x368/0x3b0 netif_change_flags+0x56/0xc0 do_setlink.isra.0+0x68c/0x1e30 Validate the value before it reaches the virtio ring helpers.
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{
"id": "CVE-2026-97989",
"sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
"published": "2026-09-25T11:17:27.010",
"lastModified": "2026-10-21T13:21:18.580",
"vulnStatus": "Received",
"cveTags": [],
"descriptions": [
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"lang": "en",
"value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvduse: validate virtqueue alignment\n\nvduse_validate_config() only checks the upper bound of vq_align. Invalid\nvalues can therefore reach vring_create_virtqueue_map(). The split-ring\nhelpers use align - 1 as a bit mask, so the alignment must be a non-zero\npower of two. A zero value makes vring_size() drop the descriptor and\navailable-ring part and vring_init() leave the used ring pointer NULL.\n\nThe VIRTIO spec requires the used ring to start at an address\naligned to at least 4 bytes. Reject values below VRING_USED_ALIGN_SIZE as\nwell as non-power-of-two values before they reach the virtio ring helpers.\n\nOpening a virtio-net device created with vq_align=0 triggered:\n\nBUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in virtqueue_kick_prepare_split+0xe3/0x100\nRead of size 2 at addr 0000000000000000 by task systemd-network/1062\n\nCall Trace (relevant frames):\n dump_stack_lvl\n print_report\n kasan_report\n __asan_load2\n virtqueue_kick_prepare_split+0xe3/0x100\n virtqueue_kick_prepare+0x40/0x60\n try_fill_recv+0x857/0x1250\n virtnet_open+0x189/0x460\n __dev_open+0x225/0x390\n __dev_change_flags+0x368/0x3b0\n netif_change_flags+0x56/0xc0\n do_setlink.isra.0+0x68c/0x1e30\n\nValidate the value before it reaches the virtio ring helpers."
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