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High · 8.9 CVE-2026-45782 EUVD-2026-35870

Cloud Hypervisor: Use-after-free in virtio-block Async I/O Completion

Published Jun 9, 2026 · Updated Jun 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Cloud Hypervisor is a Virtual Machine Monitor for Cloud workloads. From version 21.0 to before version 51.2, a guest can cause a use-after-free in the cloud-hypervisor process by submitting two virtio-block descriptor chains that reuse the same head_index while asynchronous block I/O is enabled (e.g. io_uring, aio). When the kernel completes the duplicate operation before the original, the completion path frees a bounce buffer that the kernel is still actively reading from or writing to, corrupting the freed memory. This issue has been patched in versions 51.2 and 52.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
cloud-hypervisor cloud-hypervisor >= 21.0, < 51.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed cloud-hypervisor 52.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10907-1

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