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CVE-2026-64291

Updated on 25 Jul 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommufd: Set veventq_depth upper bound

iommufd_veventq_alloc() accepts any !0 veventq_depth from userspace, with an upper bound at U32_MAX.

This leaves a vulnerability where userspace can allocate excessively large queues to exhaust kernel memory reserves.

Cap the veventq_depth (maximum number of entries) to 1 << 19, matching the maximum number of entries in the SMMUv3 EVTQ (the largest use case today).

Details

Affected product:
AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , TuxCare 9.6 ESU , TuxCare 9.8 ESU
Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+2 more)

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Ubuntu 26.04 Planned —