CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-63875
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-19
- Last modified
- 2026-10-30
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-459, CWE-670
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64: tlb: Flush walk cache when unsharing PMD tables
When huge_pmd_unshare() is called to unshare a PMD table, the
tlb_unshare_pmd_ptdesc() function sets tlb->unshared_tables=true
but the aarch64 tlb_flush() only checked tlb->freed_tables to
determine whether to use TLBF_NONE (vae1is, invalidates walk
cache) or TLBF_NOWALKCACHE (vale1is, leaf-only).
This caused the stale PMD page table entry to remain in the walk cache
after unshare, potentially leading to incorrect page table walks.
Fix by including unshared_tables in the check, so that when
unsharing tables, TLBF_NONE is used and the walk cache is properly
invalidated.
Here is the detailed distinction between vae1is and vale1is:
| Instruction Combination | Actual Invalidation Scope |
| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------|
| `VAE1IS` + TTL=`0` | All entries at all levels (full invalidation) |
| `VAE1IS` + TTL=`2` (L2) | Non-leaf at Level 0/1 + leaf at Level 2 |
| `VALE1IS` + TTL=`0` | Leaf entries at all levels (non-leaf not cleared) |
| `VALE1IS` + TTL=`2` (L2) | Leaf entry at Level 2 only |
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.10.253 < 5.10.259)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.203 < 5.15.210)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.167 < 6.1.176)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.127 < 6.6.143)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.74 < 6.12.93)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.18.13 < 6.18.35)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19.1 < 7.0.12)
• linux linux kernel 6.19
• linux linux kernel 7.1
Related
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0199c9d57861f17b556b6cba1f765c7cce79745b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47490bbb05c8c0e09cc3cfd237d8934ffc340583 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/48125cd9c55cbe297b59fd1f9bda48b0960bd181 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ca7284da0e67b3e71d90ec17f08286774245ad9 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2ff4764e03e7a8d758352f4aceb8fe1be6ac971 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d766a49d9b55705c4737cd8bb5d3faa2d31330fd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dced308d7d6a0de1c09d2058f38f1aaaf5cbb914 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe93e907b1af03cc229a80aa64a570a103d2b279 Patch