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GHSA-5RWH-CW23-RRM6

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-07-25 12:31 – Updated: 2026-07-27 06:30

Details

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.

Severity

8.2 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2026-64286 (GCVE-0-2026-64286)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-25 08:49 – Updated: 2026-07-27 04:59

Title

KVM: arm64: Clear __hyp_running_vcpu when flushing the pKVM hyp vCPU

Summary

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.

Severity

8.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Assigner

Linux

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/477145860dba4c30f…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfaef40d8a1533940…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6bea2f8becdb20d34…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4f4d61715d1061ba…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8042f6e1d7befb2f…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 , < 477145860dba4c30f0b4e36f02f4c5291c1c888b (git) Affected: be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 , < dfaef40d8a1533940fc1af788d70fce07362b4ce (git) Affected: be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 , < 6bea2f8becdb20d34378493c3b77a9b9cf8c6cfa (git) Affected: be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 , < d4f4d61715d1061ba83b88196a3605662be30750 (git) Affected: be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 , < e8042f6e1d7befb2fb6b10a75918642bcd0acf9a (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.2 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.2 (semver) Unaffected: 6.6.145 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.97 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.39 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.4 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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