Vulnerability · Published Sep 8, 2026 · Assigned by XEN
CVE-2026-62437x86: DMs may cause mem leak by IRQ binding
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity race condition in Xen from Xen. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 1% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official 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.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.21 | xen | 4.19.6-r1 | ALPINE-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | xen | 4.20.4-r1 | ALPINE-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | xen | 4.20.4-r1 | ALPINE-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | xen | 4.21.2-r1 | ALPINE-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Debian:12 | xen | 4.17.7+13-g2445b30a44-0+deb12u1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Debian:13 | xen | 4.20.4+39-gf1e1321c87-0+deb13u1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Debian:14 | xen | 4.20.4+39-gf1e1321c87-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | xen | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | xen | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | xen | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62437 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | xen | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-62437 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-362 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H