CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-64288

MediumCVSS 5.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.15%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel KVM for ARM64, a vulnerability was found with a NULL pointer dereference in the VNCR pseudo-TLB during invalidation. The function kvm_invalidate_vncr_va() does not check if the pseudo-TLB is allocated, potentially causing a crash.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference, potentially causing a kernel panic or denial of service (DoS).

Recommendation

Apply the patch that introduces an iterator checking both allocation and validity before invalidation.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: nv: Avoid dereferencing NULL VNCR pseudo-TLB VNCR TLB invalidation occurs from MMU notifiers or TLBI instructions, and either can race against a vcpu not being onlined yet (no pseudo-TLB allocated). Similarly, the TLB might be invalid, and the invalidation should be skipped in this case. Both kvm_invalidate_vncr_ipa() and kvm_invalidate_vncr_va() are expected to perform the same checks, except that the latter doesn't check for the allocation and blindly dereferences the pointer. Solve this by introducing a new iterator built on top of the usual kvm_for_each_vcpu() that checks for both of the above conditions, and convert the two users to it.

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