# CVE-2026-102916: Reachable assertion in illumos bhyve REP string instruction emulation allows guest to panic host

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:P/AU:Y/R:A/V:C
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: r151054, r151058w, r151056aw, r151054bw
- Published: 2026-10-09 · Updated: 2026-10-09

## Affected

- system/bhyve: from e0c0d44e917080841514d0dd031a696c74e8c435, fixed in 696ecf8debceed9dc33937d8c8e111e4aeebfdae
- OmniOS: from any, fixed in r151054; from r151058, fixed in r151058w; from r151056, fixed in r151056aw; from r151054, fixed in r151054bw

## Description

A reachable assertion in the illumos bhyve instruction emulator allows a guest to panic the host. When emulating a REP-prefixed MOVS or STOS instruction that accesses guest MMIO, vie_emulate_movs() and vie_emulate_stos() in usr/src/uts/intel/io/vmm/vmm_instruction_emul.c do not clear the VIES_REPEAT status flag on the final iteration. For MMIO regions emulated in the kernel (the local APIC, I/O APIC and HPET), the stale flag causes a VERIFY assertion in vie_advance_pc() to fail, and the host panics. A privileged user within a guest VM can issue a REP MOVS or REP STOS instruction against the local APIC page to cause a denial of service of the host and every other guest running on it. The flaw has existed since 2020 (illumos-gate commit e0c0d44e), and affects any illumos distribution prior to illumos-gate commit 696ecf8d.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on system/bhyve, OmniOS, upgrade to a fixed version (r151054, r151058w, r151056aw, r151054bw) per the references below.
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## References

- https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T697a32b688807e56/cve-2026-102916-18491-bhyve-rep-prefix-instr-emulation-fumbles-flags
- https://illumos.org/issues/18491
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/696ecf8debceed9dc33937d8c8e111e4aeebfdae

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