CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64286

HighCVSS 8.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

7th percentile - higher than 7% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel KVM for ARM64, a vulnerability was found due to not clearing __hyp_running_vcpu when copying vCPU context to the pKVM hypervisor. The host can provide a value that is then dereferenced at EL2.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can cause a pointer dereference at EL2, potentially leading to privilege escalation or system crash.

Recommendation

Apply the patch that clears __hyp_running_vcpu after the context copy.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Clear __hyp_running_vcpu when flushing the pKVM hyp vCPU flush_hyp_vcpu() copies the host vCPU context into the hyp's private vCPU on every run. ctxt_to_vcpu() expects a guest context to have a NULL __hyp_running_vcpu, which is only ever set on the host context, so that it resolves the vCPU via container_of(). While this is generally the case, flush_hyp_vcpu() copies the context verbatim and does not enforce this, so a value provided by the host is dereferenced at EL2 (host -> EL2). Fix by clearing __hyp_running_vcpu after the copy.

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