CVE-2026-63806

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If the destination is memory,\nand the target splits multiple pages and/or is emulated MMIO, then KVM\nhandles each fragment independently. E.g. on a page split starting at page\noffset 0xffc, KVM writes 4 bytes to the first page, then the remaining\nbytes to the second page, using ctxt->dst as the source for both (with\nappropriate offsets).\n\nIf the destination splits a page *and* hits emulated MMIO on the second\npage, then KVM will complete the write to the first page, then emulate the\nMMIO access to the second page. If there is a datamatch-enabled ioeventfd\nat offset 0 of the second page, then KVM will process the remainder of the\nstore as a potential ioeventfd signal.\n\nPutting it all together, if the guest emits a store that splits a page\nstarting at page offset N, and the second page has a datamatch-enabled\nioeventfd at offset 0, then KVM will check for datamatch using\n&dst.valptr[N] as the source. Due to dst (and thus dst.valptr) being\n32-byte aligned, if N is not aligned to @len, the BUG_ON() fires.\n\nE.g. with a 16-byte store at page offset 0xffc, to an ioeventfd of len 8,\nall initial checks in ioeventfd_in_range() will succeed, and the BUG_ON()\nfires due to @val being 4-byte aligned, but not 8-byte aligned.\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/eventfd.c:783!\n Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP\n CPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 615 Comm: repro Not tainted 7.1.0-rc2-ff238429d1ea #365 PREEMPT\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\n RIP: 0010:ioeventfd_write+0x6c/0x70 [kvm]\n Call Trace:\n <TASK>\n __kvm_io_bus_write+0x85/0xb0 [kvm]\n kvm_io_bus_write+0x53/0x80 [kvm]\n vcpu_mmio_write+0x66/0xf0 [kvm]\n emulator_read_write_onepage+0x12a/0x540 [kvm]\n emulator_read_write+0x109/0x2b0 [kvm]\n x86_emulate_insn+0x4f8/0xfb0 [kvm]\n x86_emulate_instruction+0x181/0x790 [kvm]\n kvm_mmu_page_fault+0x313/0x630 [kvm]\n vmx_handle_exit+0x18a/0x590 [kvm_intel]\n kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xc81/0x1c90 [kvm]\n kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x2d5/0x970 [kvm]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0\n do_syscall_64+0xb7/0x890\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n RIP: 0033:0x7f19c931a9bf\n </TASK>\n Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nIn a perfect world, the fix would be to simply delete the BUG_ON(), as KVM\nx86 doesn't perform alignment checks on \"normal\" memory accesses at CPL0.\nSadly, C99 ruins all the fun; while the x86 architecture plays nice,\ndereferencing an unaligned pointer directly is undefined behavior in C,\ne.g. triggers splats when running with CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT=y."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H", "baseScore": 7.1, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - A malicious KVM guest triggers this via guest-executed MMIO stores handled by the x86 instruction emulator (KVM_RUN \u2192 vmx_handle_exit \u2192 kvm_mmu_page_fault \u2192 x86_emulate_instruction \u2192 emulator_read_write \u2192 vcpu_mmio_write \u2192 ioeventfd_write), not via remote network input to the host.\nAC:L - The guest fully controls the spanning store address, size, and timing; with standard QEMU/virtio datamatch ioeventfd MMIO layouts, a page-boundary write reliably reaches ioeventfd_in_range() with a misaligned val pointer and fires the BUG_ON().\nPR:N - Exploitation requires only unprivileged code execution inside an already-running guest VM (reproducer ran as UID 1000); no host capabilities, KVM ioctls, or guest root are needed beyond what any cloud VM tenant or compromised guest process already has.\nUI:N - No victim interaction is required once the attacker can run code in a KVM guest with a datamatch ioeventfd configured, which is the default virtio/QEMU setup.\nS:C - The vulnerable component is the host kernel KVM 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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: KVM: Replace guest-triggerable BUG_ON() in ioeventfd datamatch with get_unaligned()", "id": "2502225", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502225"}, "csaw": false, "cwe": "CWE-617", "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nKVM: Replace guest-triggerable BUG_ON() in ioeventfd datamatch with get_unaligned()\nDrop a BUG_ON() that has been reachable since it was first added, way back\nin 2009, and instead use get_unaligned() to perform potentially-unaligned\naccesses.\nFor a given store, KVM x86's emulator tracks the entire value in the\ndestination operand, x86_emulate_ctxt.dst. If the destination is memory,\nand the target splits multiple pages and/or is emulated MMIO, then KVM\nhandles each fragment independently. E.g. on a page split starting at page\noffset 0xffc, KVM writes 4 bytes to the first page, then the remaining\nbytes to the second page, using ctxt->dst as the source for both (with\nappropriate offsets).\nIf the destination splits a page *and* hits emulated MMIO on the second\npage, then KVM will complete the write to the first page, then emulate the\nMMIO access to the second page. If there is a datamatch-enabled ioeventfd\nat offset 0 of the second page, then KVM will process the remainder of the\nstore as a potential ioeventfd signal.\nPutting it all together, if the guest emits a store that splits a page\nstarting at page offset N, and the second page has a datamatch-enabled\nioeventfd at offset 0, then KVM will check for datamatch using\n&dst.valptr[N] as the source. Due to dst (and thus dst.valptr) being\n32-byte aligned, if N is not aligned to @len, the BUG_ON() fires.\nE.g. with a 16-byte store at page offset 0xffc, to an ioeventfd of len 8,\nall initial checks in ioeventfd_in_range() will succeed, and the BUG_ON()\nfires due to @val being 4-byte aligned, but not 8-byte aligned.\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/eventfd.c:783!\nOops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP\nCPU: 0 UID: 1000 PID: 615 Comm: repro Not tainted 7.1.0-rc2-ff238429d1ea #365 PREEMPT\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\nRIP: 0010:ioeventfd_write+0x6c/0x70 [kvm]\nCall Trace:\n<TASK>\n__kvm_io_bus_write+0x85/0xb0 [kvm]\nkvm_io_bus_write+0x53/0x80 [kvm]\nvcpu_mmio_write+0x66/0xf0 [kvm]\nemulator_read_write_onepage+0x12a/0x540 [kvm]\nemulator_read_write+0x109/0x2b0 [kvm]\nx86_emulate_insn+0x4f8/0xfb0 [kvm]\nx86_emulate_instruction+0x181/0x790 [kvm]\nkvm_mmu_page_fault+0x313/0x630 [kvm]\nvmx_handle_exit+0x18a/0x590 [kvm_intel]\nkvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0xc81/0x1c90 [kvm]\nkvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x2d5/0x970 [kvm]\n__x64_sys_ioctl+0x8a/0xd0\ndo_syscall_64+0xb7/0x890\nentry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\nRIP: 0033:0x7f19c931a9bf\n</TASK>\nModules linked in: kvm_intel kvm irqbypass\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\nIn a perfect world, the fix would be to simply delete the BUG_ON(), as KVM\nx86 doesn't perform alignment checks on \"normal\" memory accesses at CPL0.\nSadly, C99 ruins all the fun; while the x86 architecture plays nice,\ndereferencing an unaligned pointer directly is undefined behavior in C,\ne.g. triggers splats when running with CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT=y.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) component. A malicious guest operating system can trigger a host kernel crash, leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). This occurs when the guest performs a specific memory write operation that causes an unaligned memory access during an ioeventfd datamatch check, which then triggers a critical error in the host kernel."], "name": "CVE-2026-63806", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2026-07-19T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63806\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-63806\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026071902-CVE-2026-63806-b5c7@gregkh/T"]}

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