CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64286
8.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-822
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: Clear __hyp_running_vcpu when flushing the pKVM hyp vCPU
flush_hyp_vcpu() copies the host vCPU context into the hyp's private
vCPU on every run. ctxt_to_vcpu() expects a guest context to have a
NULL __hyp_running_vcpu, which is only ever set on the host context, so
that it resolves the vCPU via container_of(). While this is generally
the case, flush_hyp_vcpu() copies the context verbatim and does not
enforce this, so a value provided by the host is dereferenced at EL2
(host -> EL2).
Fix by clearing __hyp_running_vcpu after the copy.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.145)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.97)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.18.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-822 Untrusted Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/477145860dba4c30f0b4e36f02f4c5291c1c888b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bea2f8becdb20d34378493c3b77a9b9cf8c6cfa Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4f4d61715d1061ba83b88196a3605662be30750 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfaef40d8a1533940fc1af788d70fce07362b4ce Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8042f6e1d7befb2fb6b10a75918642bcd0acf9a Patch