KVM: SVM: Set/clear CR8 write interception when AVIC is (de)activated (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-43483
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.11 % · percentile 1 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Set/clear CR8 write interception when AVIC is (de)activated Explicitly set/clear CR8 write interception when AVIC is (de)activated to fix a bug where KVM leaves the interception enabled after AVIC is activated. E.g. if KVM emulates INIT=>WFS while AVIC is deactivated, CR8 will remain intercepted in perpetuity. On its own, the dangling CR8 intercept is "just" a performance issue, but combined with the TPR sync bug fixed by commit d02e48830e3f ("KVM: SVM: Sync TPR from LAPIC into VMCB::V_TPR even if AVIC is active"), the danging intercept is fatal to Windows guests as the TPR seen by hardware gets wildly out of sync with reality. Note, VMX isn't affected by the bug as TPR_THRESHOLD is explicitly ignored when Virtual Interrupt Delivery is enabled, i.e. when APICv is active in KVM's world. I.e. there's no need to trigger update_cr8_intercept(), this is firmly an SVM implementation flaw/detail. WARN if KVM gets a CR8 write #VMEXIT while AVIC is active, as KVM should never enter the guest with AVIC enabled and CR8 writes intercepted. [Squash fix to avic_deactivate_vmcb. - Paolo]

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 3bbf3565f48ce3999b5a12cde946f81bd4475312 < a4123fe5d9122eef9852e4921f7cc463420f30d4 ; affected 3bbf3565f48ce3999b5a12cde946f81bd4475312 < 816fa1dfae4532e851b1fe6b2434c753ecbd86c7 ; affected 3bbf3565f48ce3999b5a12cde946f81bd4475312 < 01651e7751edbbc0fb4598f8367a3dabcfc8c182 ; affected 3bbf3565f48ce3999b5a12cde946f81bd4475312 < ba3bca40f9f25c053f69413e5f4a41dd0fd762bf ; affected 3bbf3565f48ce3999b5a12cde946f81bd4475312 < 737410b32bd615b321da4fbeda490351b9af5e8b ; affected 3bbf3565f48ce3999b5a12cde946f81bd4475312 < 87d0f901a9bd8ae6be57249c737f20ac0cace93d
Linux · Linuxaffected 4.7 ; unaffected 0 < 4.7 ; unaffected 6.1.167 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.130 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.78 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.19 ≤ 6.18.*

Sources

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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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