Xen Hypervisor Guest Termination IRQ Tracking Race
CVE-2026-62437 Published on September 8, 2026
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-62437 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Race Condition Vulnerability?
The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
CVE-2026-62437 has been classified to as a Race Condition vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-62437
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