CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-46059
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: Always use NextRIP as vmcb02's NextRIP after first L2 VMRUN
For guests with NRIPS disabled, L1 does not provide NextRIP when running
an L2 with an injected soft interrupt, instead it advances the current RIP
before running it. KVM uses the current RIP as the NextRIP in vmcb02 to
emulate a CPU without NRIPS.
However, after L2 runs the first time, NextRIP will be updated by the CPU
and/or KVM, and the current RIP is no longer the correct value to use in
vmcb02. Hence, after save/restore, use the current RIP if and only if a
nested run is pending, otherwise use NextRIP. Give soft_int_next_rip the
same treatment, as it's the same logic, just for a narrower use case.
[sean: give soft_int_next_rip the same treatment]
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.8 < 6.18.27)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.0.4)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3428ed1529a1af4cce5aff6c5bd2fcc39ad726bb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69fe1411a5ce678b4da6489b5d2282b4e1d13acf Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d397582f6b5e9fbcf09781c7c934b4910e94a50 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1a45e8a59bcf1f1ec0da6d4e42190b4211c67fc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9197a9dd1408e203147326139122f9c5312ce9c git.kernel.org