CVE-2026-89932

KVM: nVMX: Always flush vpid02 on first use

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
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: nVMX: Always flush vpid02 on first use

Make sure vpid02 is always flushed on first use by setting last_vpid=0 when allocating vpid02. nested_vmx_transition_tlb_flush() will always detect a VPID change on first VM-Enter after VMXON, because VPID=0 in vmcs12 is not allowed if L1 enables VPID.

This avoids using stale TLB entries from a previous lifetime of the VPID, that might have been associated with a different vCPU (or a completely different VM).

Note that last_vpid is already being initialized as 0 when the vCPU is created, but it is not reset when vpid02 is freed on VMXOFF. Hence, the problem can only occur if L1 does VMXOFF -> VMXON, runs an L2, and KVM happens to reuse a VPID that has TLB entries on the physical CPU.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 26de0d2d9a8d14c03e5ebb25fd68b5bfcd5ac366Affected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 8bc609999ec223089fec8d74c7de27d689606b36Affected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 62604376c313178811375f40a282fc2a46cd2311Affected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 8b98d662ab24f34710a56e03bc9169e4a5508606Affected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 22dfcc22c95e91295119a1c3b469816ce44c4804Affected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before 121991d150735f3c0f7401678ce4d35c5b4ac898Affected
  • 5c614b3583e7b6dab0c86356fa36c2bcbb8322a0 to before f0772389413dce9657c7d6950abf3edbbd511356Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.4Affected
  • before 4.4Not affected
  • 5.15.221 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.188 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.157 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.110 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.5 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

References

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