CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-43265
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: x86: Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events from vcpu_block()
Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events after exiting a blocking state
while L2 is active, as exiting to userspace will generate a spurious
userspace exit, usually with KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN, and likely lead to the VM's
demise. Continuing with the wakeup isn't perfect either, as *something*
has gone sideways if a vCPU is awakened in L2 with an injected event (or
worse, a nested run pending), but continuing on gives the VM a decent
chance of surviving without any major side effects.
As explained in the Fixes commits, it _should_ be impossible for a vCPU to
be put into a blocking state with an already-injected event (exception,
IRQ, or NMI). Unfortunately, userspace can stuff MP_STATE and/or injected
events, and thus put the vCPU into what should be an impossible state.
Don't bother trying to preserve the WARN, e.g. with an anti-syzkaller
Kconfig, as WARNs can (hopefully) be added in paths where _KVM_ would be
violating x86 architecture, e.g. by WARNing if KVM attempts to inject an
exception or interrupt while the vCPU isn't running.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1 < 6.1.167)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.130)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.77)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.17)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 6.19.6)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c957773063ed3264953597e32990a748381caf6 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e88b5f854bdb469424132e0bb44793ad7a7c20a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2657439265d34a911886b916ba8be97ecc117d51 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/78265cd066d73a5cb41c088fcae4a2515e480d97 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ead63640d4e72e6f6d464f4e31f7fecb79af8869 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec3be7dc9391085a2d96700e159d66d1328b7ff6 Patch