Bug 2482057 (CVE-2026-45890) - CVE-2026-45890 kernel: xen-netback: reject zero-queue configuration from guest
Summary: CVE-2026-45890 kernel: xen-netback: reject zero-queue configuration from guest
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-45890
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-27 15:09 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-28 02:56 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-27 15:09:14 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

xen-netback: reject zero-queue configuration from guest

A malicious or buggy Xen guest can write "0" to the xenbus key
"multi-queue-num-queues". The connect() function in the backend only
validates the upper bound (requested_num_queues > xenvif_max_queues)
but not zero, allowing requested_num_queues=0 to reach
vzalloc(array_size(0, sizeof(struct xenvif_queue))), which triggers
WARN_ON_ONCE(!size) in __vmalloc_node_range().

On systems with panic_on_warn=1, this allows a guest-to-host denial
of service.

The Xen network interface specification requires
the queue count to be "greater than zero".

Add a zero check to match the validation already present
in xen-blkback, which has included this
guard since its multi-queue support was added.


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