CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-72288
9.3 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-08-15
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 9.3 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: vgic: Handle race between interrupt affinity change and LPI disabling
Hyunwoo Kim reports some really bad races should the following
situation occur:
- LPI-I is pending in vcpu-B's AP list
- vcpu-A writes to vcpu-B's RD to disable its LPIs
- vcpu-C moves I from B to C
If the last two race nicely enough, vgic_prune_ap_list() can drop
the irq and AP list locks, reacquire them, and in the interval
the irq has been freed. UAF follows.
The fix is two-fold:
- Before dropping the irq and ap_list locks, take a reference on
the irq
- Do not try to handle migration of the pending bit: there is no
expectation that this state is retained, as per the architecture
With that, we're sure that the interrupt is still around, and we
safely remove it from the AP list as it has no target at this
stage (unless another interrupt fires, but that's another story).
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7258770e5814f15e8308ebda82ac9acf6964ba8e git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/77c61235d66246dd6a5f55587f0afc273d832775 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1a89d12d35a8256d2b170ced0b1c86851f3def2 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d19dca8194ebed371e624331c6be2cb73b562caf git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb74f3feb68e64cf69f86cb806a15d8cfb6757f4 git.kernel.org