CVE-2026-64457

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtiopci: fix vq info pointer lookup via wrong index Unbinding a virtio balloon device: echo virtio0 /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/virtioballoon/unbind triggers a NULL pointer dereference. The dmesg says: BUG: kernel NULL pointer...

CVE-2026-64457

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtiopci: fix vq info pointer lookup via wrong index Unbinding a virtio balloon device: echo virtio0 /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/virtioballoon/unbind triggers a NULL pointer dereference. The dmesg says: BUG: kernel NULL pointer...

CVE-2026-64457 virtio_pci: fix vq info pointer lookup via wrong index

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virtiopci: fix vq info pointer lookup via wrong index Unbinding a virtio balloon device: echo virtio0 /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/virtioballoon/unbind triggers a NULL pointer dereference. The dmesg says: BUG: kernel NULL pointer...

CVE-2026-64457

The CVE-2026-64457 issue affects the Linux kernel’s virtio_pci subsystem. When unbinding a virtio balloon device (e.g., echo virtio0 > /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/virtio_balloon/unbind), a NULL pointer dereference can occur due to a mismatch between sparse queue indices and dense queue indices (ho...