CVE-2026-63875

arm64: tlb: Flush walk cache when unsharing PMD tables

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jul 19, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

arm64: tlb: Flush walk cache when unsharing PMD tables

When huge_pmd_unshare() is called to unshare a PMD table, the tlb_unshare_pmd_ptdesc() function sets tlb->unshared_tables=true but the aarch64 tlb_flush() only checked tlb->freed_tables to determine whether to use TLBF_NONE (vae1is, invalidates walk cache) or TLBF_NOWALKCACHE (vale1is, leaf-only).

This caused the stale PMD page table entry to remain in the walk cache after unshare, potentially leading to incorrect page table walks.

Fix by including unshared_tables in the check, so that when unsharing tables, TLBF_NONE is used and the walk cache is properly invalidated.

Here is the detailed distinction between vae1is and vale1is:

| Instruction Combination | Actual Invalidation Scope | | ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------| | `VAE1IS` + TTL=`0` | All entries at all levels (full invalidation) | | `VAE1IS` + TTL=`2` (L2) | Non-leaf at Level 0/1 + leaf at Level 2 | | `VALE1IS` + TTL=`0` | Leaf entries at all levels (non-leaf not cleared) | | `VALE1IS` + TTL=`2` (L2) | Leaf entry at Level 2 only |

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 6495204f8219a57859669d618b25d06176d5a872 to before dced308d7d6a0de1c09d2058f38f1aaaf5cbb914Affected
  • ce4cf24761467756462c0e1dbe4a5e9c9eb520fc to before 47490bbb05c8c0e09cc3cfd237d8934ffc340583Affected
  • daa6707b71a2da23a82979fa21f788aeb706f1a2 to before 0199c9d57861f17b556b6cba1f765c7cce79745bAffected
  • ff37dd18ce7739a26aab0cc2d31006a45e6bde63 to before d766a49d9b55705c4737cd8bb5d3faa2d31330fdAffected
  • da06bb0ca45b1ca6f1ab55023e34e61a520337f3 to before 8ca7284da0e67b3e71d90ec17f08286774245ad9Affected
  • 9b671f6f432be07c0ddd66e437d6d0e0db684f83 to before fe93e907b1af03cc229a80aa64a570a103d2b279Affected
  • 8ce720d5bd91e9dc16db3604aa4b1bf76770a9a1 to before 48125cd9c55cbe297b59fd1f9bda48b0960bd181Affected
  • 8ce720d5bd91e9dc16db3604aa4b1bf76770a9a1 to before c2ff4764e03e7a8d758352f4aceb8fe1be6ac971Affected
  • 5.10.253 to before 5.10.259Affected
  • 5.15.203 to before 5.15.210Affected
  • 6.1.167 to before 6.1.176Affected
  • 6.6.127 to before 6.6.143Affected
  • 6.12.74 to before 6.12.93Affected
  • 6.18.13 to before 6.18.35Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.19Affected
  • before 6.19Not affected
  • 5.10.259 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.210 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.176 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.143 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.93 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.35 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.12 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

References

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