CVE-2026-89918

KVM: arm64: Correctly handle end of VA space TLBI invalidation

State
Published
Severity
9.3 Critical
Published
Sep 16, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

KVM: arm64: Correctly handle end of VA space TLBI invalidation

Our TLB invalidation by VA code is based on comparing two ranges, one defined by the TLB, and one defined by the TLBI instruction.

Each range is defined by a start and a size. However, the way the comparison is done doesn't account for address rollover, as it compares an address with (base + size). This works nicely until this expression represent the last page/block in the TTBR1 VA space, as the result is a big fat 0. And a failed TLB invalidation.

Rewrite the comparison in a way that is immune to the address rollover (making the end address inclusive instead of exclusive), and move this into a common helper that is used by both VA and IPA invalidations, as suggested by Hyunwoo Kim (although the IPA version didn't suffer from this particular problem, obviously).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.19.3 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 4ffa72ad8f37e73bbb6c0baa88557bcb4fd39929 to before ce447651a52ec077694172af10c4fffb11f56c43Affected
  • 4ffa72ad8f37e73bbb6c0baa88557bcb4fd39929 to before c624731ca6fe59ad8909ce4108301aa7560a91d6Affected
  • 4ffa72ad8f37e73bbb6c0baa88557bcb4fd39929 to before 34af2c3e31f91a739dc175459fdbd99ed952b457Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.5 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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