CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89932
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: nVMX: Always flush vpid02 on first use
Make sure vpid02 is always flushed on first use by setting last_vpid=0
when allocating vpid02. nested_vmx_transition_tlb_flush() will always
detect a VPID change on first VM-Enter after VMXON, because VPID=0 in
vmcs12 is not allowed if L1 enables VPID.
This avoids using stale TLB entries from a previous lifetime of the
VPID, that might have been associated with a different vCPU (or a
completely different VM).
Note that last_vpid is already being initialized as 0 when the vCPU is
created, but it is not reset when vpid02 is freed on VMXOFF. Hence, the
problem can only occur if L1 does VMXOFF -> VMXON, runs an L2, and KVM
happens to reuse a VPID that has TLB entries on the physical CPU.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/121991d150735f3c0f7401678ce4d35c5b4ac898 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22dfcc22c95e91295119a1c3b469816ce44c4804 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26de0d2d9a8d14c03e5ebb25fd68b5bfcd5ac366 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62604376c313178811375f40a282fc2a46cd2311 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b98d662ab24f34710a56e03bc9169e4a5508606 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bc609999ec223089fec8d74c7de27d689606b36 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0772389413dce9657c7d6950abf3edbbd511356 git.kernel.org