CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-68081

Low risk· EPSS 5%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

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

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability in KVM nVMX was fixed where vmcs12 pages were not released when nested VM-Enter failed due to invalid guest state. This caused a leak of pinned pages or mappings if L1 retried VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME.

Risk Assessment

Memory leak could lead to exhaustion of system resources, potentially resulting in denial of service or system instability in virtualized environments.

Recommendation

Update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix to prevent memory leak in KVM.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nVMX: Put vmcs12 pages if nested VM-Enter fails due to invalid guest state Put all vmcs12 pages if KVM synthesizes a nested VM-Exit due to invalid guest while emulating VMLAUNCH or VMRESUME. The invalid guest state path doesn't use nested_vmx_vmexit() as that API is intended to be used if and only if L2 is active, and the open coded equivalent neglects to put the vmcs12 pages. Failure to put the vmcs12 pages leaks any pinned pages (and/or mappings) if L1 retries VMLAUNCH/VMRESUME. Note, the !from_vmenter scenario doesn't suffer the same problem, as vmx_get_nested_state_pages() only gets/pins/maps the vmcs12 pages if L2 is active, i.e. if a "full" VM-Exit is guaranteed before KVM will retry getting vmcs12 pages.

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