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CVE-2026-62437

x86: DMs may cause mem leak by IRQ binding

6.5 MediumFix available

When guests are terminated, various pieces of cleanup need carrying out. The cleaning up of PCI devices which were assigned to guests, and the associated removal of tracking structures for IRQs used by the devices occurs relatively early in the process. Unfortunately after that point the guest about to be terminated could cause its device model (DM) to re-establish such tracking structures, by having it bind one or more IRQs anew. While some of those tracking structures would still be cleaned up later on, at least one would not be.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

0.10%Down 0.1 points since Sep 9, 2026
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

CVE List Score used 6.5

x86: DMs may cause mem leak by IRQ binding

When guests are terminated, various pieces of cleanup need carrying out. The cleaning up of PCI devices which were assigned to guests, and the associated removal of tracking structures for IRQs used by the devices occurs relatively early in the process. Unfortunately after that point the guest about to be terminated could cause its device model (DM) to re-establish such tracking structures, by having it bind one or more IRQs anew. While some of those tracking structures would still be cleaned up later on, at least one would not be.

Record
CVE-2026-62437
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2026-72719 6.5

When guests are terminated, various pieces of cleanup need carrying out. The cleaning up of PCI devices which were assigned to guests, and the associated removal of tracking structures for IRQs used by the devices occurs relatively early in the process. Unfortunately after that point the guest about to be terminated could cause its device model (DM) to re-establish such tracking structures, by having it bind one or more IRQs anew. While some of those tracking structures would still be cleaned up later on, at least one would not be.

Record
EUVD-2026-72719
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-vfxv-3qcw-g966 6.5

When guests are terminated, various pieces of cleanup need carrying out. The cleaning up of PCI...

When guests are terminated, various pieces of cleanup need carrying out. The cleaning up of PCI devices which were assigned to guests, and the associated removal of tracking structures for IRQs used by the devices occurs relatively early in the process. Unfortunately after that point the guest about to be terminated could cause its device model (DM) to re-establish such tracking structures, by having it bind one or more IRQs anew. While some of those tracking structures would still be cleaned up later on, at least one would not be.

Record
GHSA-vfxv-3qcw-g966
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
NVD 6.5

When guests are terminated, various pieces of cleanup need carrying out. The cleaning up of PCI devices which were assigned to guests, and the associated removal of tracking structures for IRQs used by the devices occurs relatively early in the process. Unfortunately after that point the guest about to be terminated could cause its device model (DM) to re-establish such tracking structures, by having it bind one or more IRQs anew. While some of those tracking structures would still be cleaned up later on, at least one would not be.

Record
CVE-2026-62437
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-362
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVALPINE-CVE-2026-62437 6.5

When guests are terminated, various pieces of cleanup need carrying out. The cleaning up of PCI devices which were assigned to guests, and the associated removal of tracking structures for IRQs used by the devices occurs relatively early in the process. Unfortunately after that point the guest about to be terminated could cause its device model (DM) to re-establish such tracking structures, by having it bind one or more IRQs anew. While some of those tracking structures would still be cleaned up later on, at least one would not be.

Record
ALPINE-CVE-2026-62437
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2026-62437 6.5

When guests are terminated, various pieces of cleanup need carrying out. The cleaning up of PCI devices which were assigned to guests, and the associated removal of tracking structures for IRQs used by the devices occurs relatively early in the process. Unfortunately after that point the guest about to be terminated could cause its device model (DM) to re-establish such tracking structures, by having it bind one or more IRQs anew. While some of those tracking structures would still be cleaned up later on, at least one would not be.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2026-62437
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-04
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OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2026-62437 6.5

When guests are terminated, various pieces of cleanup need carrying out. The cleaning up of PCI devices which were assigned to guests, and the associated removal of tracking structures for IRQs used by the devices occurs relatively early in the process. Unfortunately after that point the guest about to be terminated could cause its device model (DM) to re-establish such tracking structures, by having it bind one or more IRQs anew. While some of those tracking structures would still be cleaned up later on, at least one would not be.

Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62437
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2026:11738-1 No score

xen-4.22.0_04-1.1 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the xen-4.22.0_04-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2026:11738-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2026:4087-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2026-62437: x86: DMs may cause mem leak by IRQ binding (bsc#1276838).
  • CVE-2026-79602: x86: improper handling of HVM emulation return codes (bsc#1276839).
  • CVE-2026-79603: unconditionally do TLB flushing ahead of page scrubbing (bsc#1276841).
Record
SUSE-SU-2026:4087-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2026:4088-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2026-62437: x86: DMs may cause mem leak by IRQ binding (bsc#1276838).
  • CVE-2026-79602: x86: improper handling of HVM emulation return codes (bsc#1276839).
  • CVE-2026-79603: unconditionally do TLB flushing ahead of page scrubbing (bsc#1276841).
Record
SUSE-SU-2026:4088-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2026:4089-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

  • CVE-2026-62437: x86: DMs may cause mem leak by IRQ binding (bsc#1276838).
  • CVE-2026-79602: x86: improper handling of HVM emulation return codes (bsc#1276839).
Record
SUSE-SU-2026:4089-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2026:4090-1 No score

Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues:

Update to version 4.20.3 (jsc#PED-8907).

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2026-42493: x86 shadow paging is deprecated (bsc#1271528).
  • CVE-2026-42494,CVE-2026-42495,CVE-2026-62423,CVE-2026-62424,CVE-2026-62425: buffer overruns in libfsimage iso9660 handling (bsc#1271530).
  • CVE-2026-62426,CVE-2026-62427: sysctl and platform-op locks open to abuse (bsc#1271531).
  • CVE-2026-62428: grant-table: type confusion in grant-copy (bsc#1271532).
  • CVE-2026-62429: vNUMA domain cleanup may race other operations (bsc#1271534).
  • CVE-2026-62430: x86: Out-of-bounds read in vRTC emulation (bsc#1271535).
  • CVE-2026-62431: Viridian STIMER division by zero (bsc#1271536).
  • CVE-2026-62432: evtchn: Race between FIFO expand and reset (bsc#1271537).
  • CVE-2026-62433: correct buffer checks for DM_OP hypercalls (bsc#1271538).
  • CVE-2026-62434: PoD: Don't try to reclaim special pages (bsc#1271539).
  • CVE-2026-62437: x86: DMs may cause mem leak by IRQ binding (bsc#1276838).
  • CVE-2026-79602: x86: improper handling of HVM emulation return codes (bsc#1276839).
  • CVE-2026-79603: unconditionally do TLB flushing ahead of page scrubbing (bsc#1276841).
  • pygrub is only supported in de-privileged mode (bsc#1271947).

Non security issue fixed:

  • Xen: Missing upstream bug fixes (bsc#1027519).
Record
SUSE-SU-2026:4090-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
Alpine:v3.21
before 4.19.6-r1
4.19.6-r1
xen
Alpine:v3.22
before 4.20.4-r1
4.20.4-r1
xen
Alpine:v3.23
before 4.20.4-r1
4.20.4-r1
xen
Alpine:v3.24
before 4.21.2-r1
4.21.2-r1
xen
Debian:12
before 4.17.7+13-g2445b30a44-0+deb12u1, plus listed versions
4.17.1+2-gb773c48e36-14.17.2+55-g0b56bed864-14.17.2+76-ge1f9cb16e2-14.17.2+76-ge1f9cb16e2-1~deb12u14.17.2-1
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4.17.3+10-g091466ba55-14.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1.14.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1.1~exp14.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1.1~exp24.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1~deb12u14.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-14.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-14.17.5+23-ga4e5191dc0-1+deb12u14.17.5+72-g01140da4e8-14.17.7-0+deb12u1
4.17.7+13-g2445b30a44-0+deb12u1
xen
Debian:13
before 4.20.4+39-gf1e1321c87-0+deb13u1, plus listed versions
4.20.0+68-g35cb38b222-14.20.2+37-g61ff35323e-0+deb13u14.20.2+37-g61ff35323e-14.20.2+7-g1badcf5035-0+deb13u14.20.2+7-g1badcf5035-14.20.2+7-g1badcf5035-24.20.3+127-gc42374a105-0+deb13u14.20.3+127-gc42374a105-1
4.20.4+39-gf1e1321c87-0+deb13u1
xen
Debian:14
before 4.20.4+39-gf1e1321c87-1, plus listed versions
4.20.0+68-g35cb38b222-14.20.2+37-g61ff35323e-14.20.2+7-g1badcf5035-14.20.2+7-g1badcf5035-24.20.3+127-gc42374a105-1
4.20.4+39-gf1e1321c87-1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
before 4.17.6_16-150500.3.79.1
4.17.6_16-150500.3.79.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3
before 4.16.7_14-150400.4.92.1
4.16.7_14-150400.4.92.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4
before 4.16.7_14-150400.4.92.1
4.16.7_14-150400.4.92.1
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5
before 4.12.4_74-3.151.1
4.12.4_74-3.151.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7
before 4.20.4_04-150700.3.46.1
4.20.4_04-150700.3.46.1
xen
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15 SP7
before 4.20.4_04-150700.3.46.1
4.20.4_04-150700.3.46.1
xen
Ubuntu:16.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
4.5.1-0ubuntu14.5.1-0ubuntu24.6.0-1ubuntu14.6.0-1ubuntu24.6.0-1ubuntu4
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4.6.0-1ubuntu4.14.6.0-1ubuntu4.24.6.0-1ubuntu4.34.6.5-0ubuntu14.6.5-0ubuntu1.14.6.5-0ubuntu1.24.6.5-0ubuntu1.4
None known
xen
Ubuntu:18.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
4.9.0-0ubuntu34.9.0-0ubuntu44.9.2-0ubuntu1
None known
xen
Ubuntu:20.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
4.9.2-0ubuntu24.9.2-0ubuntu64.9.2-0ubuntu74.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu14.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu24.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu2.24.11.3+24-g14b62ab3e5-1ubuntu2.3
None known
xen
Ubuntu:22.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
4.11.4+24-gddaaccbbab-1ubuntu24.16.0-1~ubuntu24.16.0-1~ubuntu2.1
None known
xen
Ubuntu:24.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
4.17.2-14.17.2+55-g0b56bed864-14.17.2+76-ge1f9cb16e2-14.17.2+76-ge1f9cb16e2-1ubuntu14.17.3+10-g091466ba55-14.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1.1ubuntu24.17.3+10-g091466ba55-1.1ubuntu3
None known
xen
Ubuntu:26.10
All versions, plus listed versions
4.20.2+7-g1badcf5035-2build24.20.2+37-g61ff35323e-1ubuntu14.20.3+127-gc42374a105-1
None known
xen
Ubuntu:26.04:LTS
All versions, plus listed versions
4.20.0+68-g35cb38b222-14.20.2+7-g1badcf5035-24.20.2+7-g1badcf5035-2build2
None known
xen
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 4.22.0_04-1.1
4.22.0_04-1.1

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
affected, factsOSV
first indexedCVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2026-62437 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Xen, published September 8, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.10%, the 0th percentile. Fixed in xen 4.19.6-r1.

References

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