CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46032
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- 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: nSVM: Triple fault if restore host CR3 fails on nested #VMEXIT
If loading L1's CR3 fails on a nested #VMEXIT, nested_svm_vmexit()
returns an error code that is ignored by most callers, and continues to
run L1 with corrupted state. A sane recovery is not possible in this
case, and HW behavior is to cause a shutdown. Inject a triple fault
instead, and do not return early from nested_svm_vmexit(). Continue
cleaning up the vCPU state (e.g. clear pending exceptions), to handle
the failure as gracefully as possible.
From the APM:
Upon #VMEXIT, the processor performs the following actions in order to
return to the host execution context:
...
if (illegal host state loaded, or exception while loading host state)
shutdown
else
execute first host instruction following the VMRUN
Remove the return value of nested_svm_vmexit(), which is mostly
unchecked anyway.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.9 < 7.0.4)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e661773890e6ba6b16064fad961da3dd311be43 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5d291ef0585ed880ed4dd71ea1a5965e0a65fb53 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a738cf170a4a2332ea3a15e23ec65b5757fe4a1 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/af79992ecdb6817970d757fb5d853b8d9b55a0d6 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0eb0a8959ac2b808eb11548d002fe1f9b5650cc git.kernel.org