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.
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First Time appeared Xen
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Vendors & Products Xen
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Weaknesses CWE-391

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Description 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.
Title x86: DMs may cause mem leak by IRQ binding
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: XEN

Published: 2026-09-08T12:10:52.643Z

Updated: 2026-09-08T17:08:26.757Z

Reserved: 2026-07-14T10:28:12.655Z

Link: CVE-2026-62437

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-08T13:17:19.623

Modified: 2026-09-08T19:20:25.117

Link: CVE-2026-62437

cve-icon Redhat

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