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CVE-2026-46655

HIGH 7.8

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

CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-122 CWE-190
Vendor virtio-win
Product kvm-guest-drivers-windows
Published Sep 18, 2026
Last Updated Sep 18, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

virtio-win / kvm-guest-drivers-windows
>= mm210, < mm320

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/security/advisories/GHSA-qrhp-4mhp-hjwh github.com: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull/1568 github.com: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/commit/c6bef93d7909584bbda4e5c87603ea175825f342 github.com: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/releases/tag/mm320