CVE-2026-74613: Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vsock/virtio: avoid refilling the RX queue after teardown Commit b917507e5ad9 ("vsock/virtio: stop workers during the .remove()") made the RX worker jump to its common exit when rx_run is clear. That exit still refills the RX queue when the buffer count is low, so work queued across virtio_vsock_vqs_del() can add buffers after the virtqueues have been deleted. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in virtqueue_add_sgs Read of size 4 by task kworker/0:1 Workqueue: virtio_vsock virtio_transport_rx_work Call Trace: virtqueue_add_sgs (drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:2796) virtio_vsock_rx_fill (net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:332) virtio_transport_rx_work (net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:701) process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3314) worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3478) kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436) ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158) ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245) ... Freed by task 141: kfree (mm/slub.c:6566) vp_del_vq (drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:259) vp_del_vqs (drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:285) virtio_vsock_freeze (net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:912) virtio_device_freeze (drivers/virtio/virtio.c:658) virtio_pci_freeze (drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:601) pci_pm_freeze (drivers/pci/pci-driver.c:1098) device_suspend (drivers/base/power/main.c:1968) Kernel panic - not syncing: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ... Jump to a no-refill exit when rx_run is clear, leaving the normal exit to replenish a running queue.

Affected products

• Linux Linux: from 5.3, before 5.10.265 (fixed in 5.10.265); from 5.11, before 5.15.216 (fixed in 5.15.216); from 5.16, before 6.1.183 (fixed in 6.1.183); from 6.2, before 6.6.152 (fixed in 6.6.152); from 6.7, before 6.12.104 (fixed in 6.12.104); from 6.13, before 6.18.45 (fixed in 6.18.45); …

Published 2026-08-22. Last modified 2026-08-25.