CVE-2026-46076

KVM: nSVM: Raise #UD if unhandled VMMCALL isn't intercepted by L1

State
Published
Severity
7.9 High
Published
May 27, 2026
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

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

KVM: nSVM: Raise #UD if unhandled VMMCALL isn't intercepted by L1

Explicitly synthesize a #UD for VMMCALL if L2 is active, L1 does NOT want to intercept VMMCALL, nested_svm_l2_tlb_flush_enabled() is true, and the hypercall is something other than one of the supported Hyper-V hypercalls. When all of the above conditions are met, KVM will intercept VMMCALL but never forward it to L1, i.e. will let L2 make hypercalls as if it were L1.

The TLFS says a whole lot of nothing about this scenario, so go with the architectural behavior, which says that VMMCALL #UDs if it's not intercepted.

Opportunistically do a 2-for-1 stub trade by stub-ifying the new API instead of the helpers it uses. The last remaining "single" stub will soon be dropped as well.

[sean: rewrite changelog and comment, tag for stable, remove defunct stubs]

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.9 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 3f4a812edf5cb0a50e65fbdfafdb3e688da18f16 to before fcef67506c0234935cb0fb026740a637edb58d7cAffected
  • 3f4a812edf5cb0a50e65fbdfafdb3e688da18f16 to before 924d721fae95687acedbaf624a094ed0e8b67104Affected
  • 3f4a812edf5cb0a50e65fbdfafdb3e688da18f16 to before 009c0f726abeaa67aad1d96b883bdce01d405ce2Affected
  • 3f4a812edf5cb0a50e65fbdfafdb3e688da18f16 to before 5fb4a5f361565f5b629d8a8fe5288ce8463c5727Affected
  • 3f4a812edf5cb0a50e65fbdfafdb3e688da18f16 to before c36991c6f8d2ab56ee67aff04e3c357f45cfc76cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.2Affected
  • before 6.2Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.86 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.27 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.4 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

References

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