Nixpkgs security tracker
NIXPKGS-2026-0853
GitHub issue
published 2 months, 3 weeks ago
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CVE-2026-5164
6.7 MEDIUM
- CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
- Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Privileges Required (PR): High (H)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
- Confidentiality (C): High (H)
- Integrity (I): High (H)
- Availability (A): High (H)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): High (H)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Confidentiality (MC): High (H)
- Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
- Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
- Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
by @mweinelt Activity log
- Created suggestion
- @mweinelt accepted
- @mweinelt published on GitHub
Virtio-win: virtio-win: denial of service via unvalidated descriptor count in unmap request
A flaw was found in virtio-win. The `RhelDoUnMap()` function does not properly validate the number of descriptors provided by a user during an unmap request. A local user could exploit this input validation vulnerability by supplying an excessive number of descriptors, leading to a buffer overrun. This can cause a system crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
References
Affected products
virtio-win
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.virtio-win
Windows VirtIO Drivers
Package maintainers
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@anthonyroussel Anthony Roussel <anthony@roussel.dev>