CVE-2026-46032

KVM: nSVM: Triple fault if restore host CR3 fails on nested #VMEXIT

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
Oct 30, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: nSVM: Triple fault if restore host CR3 fails on nested #VMEXIT

If loading L1's CR3 fails on a nested #VMEXIT, nested_svm_vmexit() returns an error code that is ignored by most callers, and continues to run L1 with corrupted state. A sane recovery is not possible in this case, and HW behavior is to cause a shutdown. Inject a triple fault instead, and do not return early from nested_svm_vmexit(). Continue cleaning up the vCPU state (e.g. clear pending exceptions), to handle the failure as gracefully as possible.

From the APM:

Upon #VMEXIT, the processor performs the following actions in order to return to the host execution context:

...

if (illegal host state loaded, or exception while loading host state) shutdown else execute first host instruction following the VMRUN

Remove the return value of nested_svm_vmexit(), which is mostly unchecked anyway.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • d82aaef9c88aa27bce63751d6d6329920b1fe8da to before e6318570a9b4e137b0b744832b920b38bb069561Affected
  • d82aaef9c88aa27bce63751d6d6329920b1fe8da to before 2e661773890e6ba6b16064fad961da3dd311be43Affected
  • d82aaef9c88aa27bce63751d6d6329920b1fe8da to before af79992ecdb6817970d757fb5d853b8d9b55a0d6Affected
  • d82aaef9c88aa27bce63751d6d6329920b1fe8da to before b0eb0a8959ac2b808eb11548d002fe1f9b5650ccAffected
  • d82aaef9c88aa27bce63751d6d6329920b1fe8da to before 9a738cf170a4a2332ea3a15e23ec65b5757fe4a1Affected
  • d82aaef9c88aa27bce63751d6d6329920b1fe8da to before 5d291ef0585ed880ed4dd71ea1a5965e0a65fb53Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.9Affected
  • before 5.9Not affected
  • 6.1.191 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.57 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.4 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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