CVE-2026-89918

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This works nicely until\nthis expression represent the last page/block in the TTBR1 VA space,\nas the result is a big fat 0. And a failed TLB invalidation.\n\nRewrite the comparison in a way that is immune to the address\nrollover (making the end address inclusive instead of exclusive),\nand move this into a common helper that is used by both VA and IPA\ninvalidations, as suggested by Hyunwoo Kim (although the IPA version\ndidn't suffer from this particular problem, obviously)."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 9.3, "baseSeverity": "CRITICAL"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The bug is reached when an arm64 nested-KVM L1 hypervisor executes EL2/EL1 TLBI-by-VA instructions that trap into KVM_RUN and run handle_tlbi_el2()/handle_tlbi_el1() \u2192 kvm_handle_s1e2_tlbi() \u2192 invalidate_vncr_va(); no network, adjacent-radio, or physical-device path reaches this VNCR pseudo-TLB comparison.\nAC:L - An attacker controlling an L1 nested hypervisor can place VNCR_EL2 on the last TTBR1 page or issue a VA-scoped TLBI for that range so base+size wraps to 0, causing a deterministic missed invalidation; nested virt on arm64 cloud hosts is an attacker-selectable deployment, not an uncontrollable condition.\nPR:N - Exploitation requires no host root or init-namespace capabilities beyond running hypervisor code in a tenant KVM guest on an arm64 host with nested virtualization enabled; the attacker operates entirely from within their assigned VM, consistent with other arm64 KVM nested-virt CVE scoring.\nUI:N - No victim user or administrator action is required beyond the attacker operating their own nested-virtualization workload; VNCR placement, stage-1 remaps, and TLBI-by-VA issuance are fully attacker-driven from within the guest.\nS:C - Failed VNCR pseudo-TLB invalidation leaves the host kernel's per-CPU fixmap aliasing a stale guest physical page for nested EL2 register state, so the hypervisor reads and writes the wrong memory after the guest remaps that VA, crossing the guest-to-hypervisor security boundary.\nC:H - A missed invalidation keeps a host PAGE_KERNEL fixmap to the old HPA after the L1 remaps VNCR_EL2, so KVM continues to read nested EL2 register state from a guest page that should no longer back VNCR, disclosing hypervisor-viewed contents across the stale translation.\nI:H - The same stale writable fixmap lets the host write nested EL2 register values into a guest page the L1 has already remapped or reused, and lets the guest inject attacker-controlled EL2 sysreg contents through the old page while KVM trusts it as VNCR, corrupting hypervisor-emulated nested state.\nA:H - Stale VNCR translations leave host KVM and FEAT_NV2 hardware using inconsistent nested EL2 state and the wrong guest page, which can crash or livelock the host nested-virt paths and deny service to co-resident VMs on the hypervisor."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c"], "versions": [{"version": "4ffa72ad8f37e73bbb6c0baa88557bcb4fd39929", "lessThan": "ce447651a52ec077694172af10c4fffb11f56c43", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "4ffa72ad8f37e73bbb6c0baa88557bcb4fd39929", "lessThan": "c624731ca6fe59ad8909ce4108301aa7560a91d6", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "4ffa72ad8f37e73bbb6c0baa88557bcb4fd39929", "lessThan": "34af2c3e31f91a739dc175459fdbd99ed952b457", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.16", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.16", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18.51", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.5", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.16", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.51"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.16", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.5"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.16", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce447651a52ec077694172af10c4fffb11f56c43"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c624731ca6fe59ad8909ce4108301aa7560a91d6"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34af2c3e31f91a739dc175459fdbd99ed952b457"}], "title": "KVM: arm64: Correctly handle end of VA space TLBI invalidation", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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