Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vdpa_sim_blk: set number of address spaces and virtqueue groups
Commit bda324fd037a ("vdpasim: control virtqueue support") added two
new fields (nas, ngroups) to vdpasim_dev_attr, but we forgot to
initialize them for vdpa_sim_blk.
When creating a new vdpa_sim_blk device this causes the kernel
to panic in this way:
$ vdpa dev add mgmtdev vdpasim_blk name blk0
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000030
...
RIP: 0010:vhost_iotlb_add_range_ctx+0x41/0x220 [vhost_iotlb]
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
vhost_iotlb_add_range+0x11/0x800 [vhost_iotlb]
vdpasim_map_range+0x91/0xd0 [vdpa_sim]
vdpasim_alloc_coherent+0x56/0x90 [vdpa_sim]
...
This happens because vdpasim->iommu[0] is not initialized when
dev_attr.nas is 0.
Let's fix this issue by initializing both (nas, ngroups) to 1 for
vdpa_sim_blk.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)