KVM: arm64: Handle negative S1 walk levels in VNCR TLB size evaluation (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-89775
CRITICAL 9.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Handle negative S1 walk levels in VNCR TLB size evaluation Computing the effects of a TLB invalidation involves looking at the size of the mapping cached by the TLB. For S1 mappings such as VNCR, this is deducted from the combination of the base granule size and the mapping level. However, this implies that the S1 MMU is *on*. When the MMU is off, we indicate this with the level being set to a "creative" value of -127 (S1_MMU_DISABLED). This ends-up being misinterpreted by pgshift_level_to_ttl() as it doesn't handle negative levels at all (the level is immediately cast to a u8 and only the bottom two bits considered), leading to an invalidation size of 0. Not helpful. Tidy-up pgshift_level_to_ttl() to handle these negative levels, and ttl_to_size() to always return SZ_1G when no valid TTL is present. This allows the removal of open-coded checks for similar situations. Note that the check for a negative value not explicitely checking for S1_MMU_DISABLED is deliberate, so that actual negative levels introduced with LVA2 and D128 can take the same path if we ever support them.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 7270cc9157f474dfc46750a34c9d7defc686b2eb < be54a70067c7dbe1381157e8a238fa4b16ea9c05 ; affected 7270cc9157f474dfc46750a34c9d7defc686b2eb < 1c9fca34b9625a67a7f1a03c8604f3df760c6c49 ; affected 7270cc9157f474dfc46750a34c9d7defc686b2eb < 8053393680d4fa3eb962667d2be95dd39f0940e5
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.16 ; unaffected 0 < 6.16 ; unaffected 6.18.51 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.2.5 ≤ 7.2.* ; unaffected 7.3 ≤ *

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