KVM: x86: Ensure vendor's exit handler runs before fastpath userspace exits (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-64284
HIGH 7.1

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 3 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Ensure vendor's exit handler runs before fastpath userspace exits Move the handling of fastpath userspace exits into vendor code to ensure KVM runs vendor specific operations that need to run before userspace gains control of the vCPU. E.g. for VMX (and soon to be for SVM as well), KVM needs to flush the PML buffer prior to exiting to userspace, otherwise any memory written by the final KVM_RUN might never be flagged as dirty. Note, waiting to snapshot CR0 and CR3 until svm_handle_exit() is flawed in general, as that risks consuming stale state in a fastpath handler. That will be addressed in a future change.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
  • CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected f7f39c50edb9d336274371953275e0d3503b9b75 < b3436d9b9b1affe1c3191ac9831308923f5f03c3 ; affected f7f39c50edb9d336274371953275e0d3503b9b75 < 4ad73ef0e7966ecfe67de0060537b4cb14d9acd4 ; affected f7f39c50edb9d336274371953275e0d3503b9b75 < f2ca2b5326211bd38490f0497eb583721ce0bbc0 ; affected f7f39c50edb9d336274371953275e0d3503b9b75 < 0ffedf43910e44b76c2c1db4e9fbf12b268190c1
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.12 ; unaffected 0 < 6.12 ; unaffected 6.12.96 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.39 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.4 ≤ 7.1.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD