A flaw was found in virtio-win. A low-integrity process can issue an IOCTL request to viosock.sys!VIOSockSelect with a maliciously crafted request that causes an integer overflow. This allows the process to circumvent bounds checking, resulting in a heap overflow in the NonPagedPool kernel heap. The flaw could be exploited to escalate privileges on Windows systems running this driver.

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Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:15:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in virtio-win. A low-integrity process can issue an IOCTL request to viosock.sys!VIOSockSelect with a maliciously crafted request that causes an integer overflow. This allows the process to circumvent bounds checking, resulting in a heap overflow in the NonPagedPool kernel heap. The flaw could be exploited to escalate privileges on Windows systems running this driver.
Title virtio-win: viosock.sys: integer overflow in VIOSockSelect leads to heap-based buffer overflow
Weaknesses CWE-190
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{'score': 7.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-06-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-46655 - Bugzilla

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