In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

virtio-pci: Check if is_avq is NULL

[bug]
In the virtio_pci_common.c function vp_del_vqs, vp_dev->is_avq is involved
to determine whether it is admin virtqueue, but this function vp_dev->is_avq
may be empty. For installations, virtio_pci_legacy does not assign a value
to vp_dev->is_avq.

[fix]
Check whether it is vp_dev->is_avq before use.

[test]
Test with virsh Attach device
Before this patch, the following command would crash the guest system

After applying the patch, everything seems to be working fine.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42134
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e2024b0b9b3d5709e3f7e9b92951d7e29154106
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8fae27d141a32a1624d0d0d5419d94252824498