CVE-2026-64287 PUBLISHED

KVM: arm64: Bound used_lrs when flushing the pKVM hyp vCPU

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 19.07.2026 Published: 25.07.2026 Updated: 25.07.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: Bound used_lrs when flushing the pKVM hyp vCPU

flush_hyp_vcpu() copies the host vGIC state into the hyp's private vCPU on every run. The vGIC list register save and restore use used_lrs as their loop bound and expect it to stay within the number of implemented list registers. While this is generally the case, flush_hyp_vcpu() copies vgic_v3 verbatim and does not enforce this, so a value provided by the host is used at EL2 to index vgic_lr[] and access ICH_LR<n>_EL2 (host -> EL2).

Fix by clamping used_lrs to the number of implemented list registers after the copy, as the trusted path already does in vgic_flush_lr_state(). The number of implemented list registers is constant after init, so it is replicated once from kvm_vgic_global_state.nr_lr into hyp_gicv3_nr_lr rather than read on every entry.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 to 2c5e72b9fbf83fdfa724e9f1af0f418ccf8739b8 (excl.)
  • affected from be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 to 9fa301d8298778dd799fa4dcf7a7f440715d146e (excl.)
  • affected from be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 to c646431865f4b1a5b14067233fa27b11e05e0d46 (excl.)
  • affected from be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 to 7fca3fcef81c713bc82a37bf741e0f28e6d04a6f (excl.)
  • affected from be66e67f175096f283c9d5614c4991fc9e7ed975 to 8cc8bbbfab14c22c5551d0dd19b208a44b141c76 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.97 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.40 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.4 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2-rc1 to * (incl.)

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