NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting rv package, versions *
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RV-18515240
- published4 Aug 2026
- disclosed25 Jul 2026
Introduced: 25 Jul 2026
NewCVE-2026-64457 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 rv.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rv package and not the rv package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtio_pci: fix vq info pointer lookup via wrong index
Unbinding a virtio balloon device:
echo virtio0 > /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/virtio_balloon/unbind
triggers a NULL pointer dereference. The dmesg says:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
[...]
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid_or_report+0x5/0xf0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
vp_del_vqs+0x121/0x230
remove_common+0x135/0x150
virtballoon_remove+0xee/0x100
virtio_dev_remove+0x3b/0x80
device_release_driver_internal+0x187/0x2c0
unbind_store+0xb9/0xe0
kernfs_fop_write_iter.llvm.11660790530567441834+0xf6/0x180
vfs_write+0x2a9/0x3b0
ksys_write+0x5c/0xd0
do_syscall_64+0x54/0x230
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x29/0x31
[...]
</TASK>
The virtio_balloon device registers 5 queues (inflate, deflate, stats, free_page, reporting) but only the first two are unconditional. The stats, free_page and reporting queues are each conditional on their respective feature bits. When any of these features are absent, the corresponding vqs_info entry has name == NULL, creating holes in the array.
The root cause is an indexing mismatch introduced when vq info storage was changed to be passed as an argument. vp_find_vqs_msix() and vp_find_vqs_intx() store the info pointer at vp_dev->vqs[i], where 'i' is the caller's sparse array index. However, the virtqueue itself gets vq->index assigned from queue_idx, a dense index that skips NULL entries. When holes exist, 'i' and queue_idx diverge. Later, vp_del_vqs() looks up info via vp_dev->vqs[vq->index] using the dense index into the sparsely-populated array, and hits NULL.
Fix this by storing info at vp_dev->vqs[queue_idx] instead of vp_dev->vqs[i], so the store index matches the lookup index (vq->index). Apply the fix to both the MSIX and INTX paths.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2507141
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-64457
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/075bc3c779e1ea7294afabdcb7e0a49536959b28
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41e6dc1a10036c9f47057033f19af7e52ec464b6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64a4c0befa77bcc01076aec9f93863ffd4ed06b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7d380fb525c13bdd114369a1979c80c346e6abc