CVE-2026-64604

KVM: VMX: Grab vmcs12 on CR8 interception update iff vCPU is in guest mode

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 6, 2026
Updated
Aug 17, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

KVM: VMX: Grab vmcs12 on CR8 interception update iff vCPU is in guest mode

When updating CR8 intercepts, get vmcs12 if and only if the vCPU is in guest mode so that a future change can have update CR8 intercepts during vCPU creation, without running afoul of get_vmcs12()'s lockdep assertion.

------------[ cut here ]------------ debug_locks && !(lock_is_held(&(&vcpu->mutex)->dep_map) || !refcount_read(&vcpu->kvm->users_count)) WARNING: arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h:61 at get_vmcs12 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h:60 [inline], CPU#0: syz.2.19/5879 WARNING: arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h:61 at vmx_update_cr8_intercept+0x3de/0x4e0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6879, CPU#0: syz.2.19/5879 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5879 Comm: syz.2.19 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:get_vmcs12 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h:60 [inline] RIP: 0010:vmx_update_cr8_intercept+0x3de/0x4e0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6879 Call Trace: <TASK> apic_update_ppr arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:984 [inline] kvm_lapic_reset+0x1c24/0x2980 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:3023 kvm_vcpu_reset+0x44c/0x1bf0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:12986 kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x746/0x8b0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:12847 kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu+0x428/0x930 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4201 kvm_vm_ioctl+0x893/0xd50 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5159 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f </TASK>

No functional change intended.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844 to before c7cd3605244c924249dea32632e1bc3e89bda543Affected
  • a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844 to before 9a21f1defd96c6301c5fb462a78eb51b191bd2ddAffected
  • a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844 to before 570af5db081b87374594a00711ac5760d2ea6844Affected
  • a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844 to before ffaaff82336db84e9b58e7a3e81c2fd64e05ed7aAffected
  • a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844 to before 258ec63c0f281bf7b50f9de67c8e93b5b7be5ed4Affected
  • a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844 to before 3dcfb04dd43b16fa1240fc6487fff578ad57264cAffected
  • a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844 to before db8407b9fd06d857a4a5e8bcff1d086d13007711Affected
  • a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844 to before 7ef78d71ca713d8c00f7c34ddcf276c808143f77Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 3.18Affected
  • before 3.18Not affected
  • 5.10.261 through 5.10.*Not affected
  • 5.15.212 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.178 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.145 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.96 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.39 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.1.4 through 7.1.*Not affected
  • 7.2 and laterNot affected

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