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CVE-2026-98440

KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.9
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction We free the shadow S2 structures from kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(), which is a Bad Idea(tm). Freeing the page tables is fair game (this is what this callback is for), but freeing the container that could still be referenced by another part of the system is not great. Instead, grow separate destructors that gets called when we tear the VM down for good. From there, we can nuke both the individual MMUs as well as the global array that points to them, safe in the knowledge that the vcpus themselves have been destroyed already.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 4f128f8e1aaac189f83d0f828bcdb2986d8d2e51 · fixed in 876049f026b4dfaca0cc78ec81be0e639ca8525d; From 4f128f8e1aaac189f83d0f828bcdb2986d8d2e51 · fixed in 22e82acec93a681071ed36f70eabe2d0c4e0bebd; From 4f128f8e1aaac189f83d0f828bcdb2986d8d2e51 · fixed in 5bf1c9175e657b3c2dc1cf77403031ac7aadcf66; From 4f128f8e1aaac189f83d0f828bcdb2986d8d2e51 · fixed in e5843f4effaa2ffac3e789ecd4456403564961d4

  • Linux Linux

    6.11

  • KernelLinux

    From 6.11.0 · fixed in 6.12.113; From 6.13.0 · fixed in 6.18.56; From 6.19.0 · fixed in 7.2.9

References 4

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