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CVE

CVE-2026-89775

KVM: arm64: Handle negative S1 walk levels in VNCR TLB size evaluation
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CVE

CVE-2026-89775

KVM: arm64: Handle negative S1 walk levels in VNCR TLB size evaluation

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

KVM: arm64: Handle negative S1 walk levels in VNCR TLB size evaluation

Computing the effects of a TLB invalidation involves looking at

the size of the mapping cached by the TLB. For S1 mappings such as

VNCR, this is deducted from the combination of the base granule size

and the mapping level.

However, this implies that the S1 MMU is on. When the MMU is off,

we indicate this with the level being set to a "creative" value of

-127 (S1MMUDISABLED).

This ends-up being misinterpreted by pgshiftlevelto_ttl() as it

doesn't handle negative levels at all (the level is immediately cast

to a u8 and only the bottom two bits considered), leading to an

invalidation size of 0. Not helpful.

Tidy-up pgshiftlevelto_ttl() to handle these negative levels, and

ttltosize() to always return SZ_1G when no valid TTL is present.

This allows the removal of open-coded checks for similar situations.

Note that the check for a negative value not explicitely checking for

S1MMUDISABLED is deliberate, so that actual negative levels introduced

with LVA2 and D128 can take the same path if we ever support them.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
9.3
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/16/14, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c9fca34b9625a67a7f1a03c8604f3df760c6c49, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8053393680d4fa3eb962667d2be95dd39f0940e5, https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be54a70067c7dbe1381157e8a238fa4b16ea9c05, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89775.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89775, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Severity

9.3

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Base CVSS
9.3
EPSS Probability
0.0023%
EPSS Percentile
0.12693%
Introduced Version
7270cc9157f474dfc46750a34c9d7defc686b2eb,6.16.0,6.19.0,0
Fix Available
8053393680d4fa3eb962667d2be95dd39f0940e5,6.18.51,7.2.5,6.12.0-211.61.1.el10_2,0:6.12.0-211.61.1.el10_2

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