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vfio/pci: Release the VGA arbiter client on register_device() failure
Type: advisorySources: OSV
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/pci: Release the VGA arbiter client on register_device() failure The re-order in the Fixes commit below displaced vfio_pci_vga_init() as the last failure point of what is now vfio_pci_core_register_device() without introducing an unwind for the VGA arbiter registration. In current kernels this is mostly benign because vfio_pci_set_decode() only uses pci_dev state, but the original failure path could leave a callback with a freed vdev cookie. The stale registration also becomes unsafe again once the callback follows drvdata to the vfio device. Add the required VGA unwind callout.
- Products
- Kernel
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 5.10.261, 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.12.96, 6.18.39, 6.6.145, 7.1.4
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-64475
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 18:48 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
vfio/pci: Release the VGA arbiter client on register_device() failure
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 25 Jul 2026, 08:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vfio/pci: Release the VGA arbiter client on register_device() failure The re-order in the Fixes commit below displaced vfio_pci_vga_init() as the last failure point of what is now vfio_pci_core_register_device() without introducing an unwind for the VGA arbiter registration. In current kernels this is mostly benign because vfio_pci_set_decode() only uses pci_dev state, but the original failure path could leave a callback with a freed vdev cookie. The stale registration also becomes unsafe again once the callback follows drvdata to the vfio device. Add the required VGA unwind callout.
osv:CVE-2026-64475
Kernel
Fixed versions: 5.10.261, 5.15.212, 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.96, 6.18.39, 7.1.4
Complete source record
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