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.
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Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +0000
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| Description | A flaw was found in virtio-win. A low-integrity process can issue an IOCTL request to viosock.sys!VIOSockSelect with a maliciously crafted request that causes an integer overflow. This allows the process to circumvent bounds checking, resulting in a heap overflow in the NonPagedPool kernel heap. The flaw could be exploited to escalate privileges on Windows systems running this driver. | 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. |
| Title | virtio-win: viosock.sys: integer overflow in VIOSockSelect leads to heap-based buffer overflow | virtio-win: Integer overflow causing a heap overflow in Viosock driver |
| Weaknesses | CWE-122 | |
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Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:45:00 +0000
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Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:15:00 +0000
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| Description | A flaw was found in virtio-win. A low-integrity process can issue an IOCTL request to viosock.sys!VIOSockSelect with a maliciously crafted request that causes an integer overflow. This allows the process to circumvent bounds checking, resulting in a heap overflow in the NonPagedPool kernel heap. The flaw could be exploited to escalate privileges on Windows systems running this driver. | |
| Title | virtio-win: viosock.sys: integer overflow in VIOSockSelect leads to heap-based buffer overflow | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-190 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-18T16:46:50.352Z
Reserved: 2026-05-15T20:11:54.585Z
Link: CVE-2026-46655
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-18T17:16:57.373
Modified: 2026-09-18T17:16:57.373
Link: CVE-2026-46655
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Updated: 2026-06-24T16:04:10Z