CVE-2026-53277

Summary

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

KVM: arm64: Take the SRCU lock for page table walks in fault injection and AT emulation

walk_s1() and kvm_walk_nested_s2() expect to be called while holding kvm->srcu to guard against memslot changes. While this is generally the case, __kvm_at_s12() and __kvm_find_s1_desc_level() call into the respective walkers without taking kvm->srcu.

Fix by acquiring kvm->srcu prior to the table walk in both instances.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxbe04cebf3e78874627dc1042991d5d504464a5cc < 97706097f9b851cfe55c3b00b083dfc2bcf542bcaffected
LinuxLinuxbe04cebf3e78874627dc1042991d5d504464a5cc < ec42b4ed1b072ea2d03f086061aa67bad6d8de39affected
LinuxLinuxbe04cebf3e78874627dc1042991d5d504464a5cc < f2ca45b50d4216c9cc7ffabf50d9ad1932209251affected
LinuxLinux6.12affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.12unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.36 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0.13 <= 7.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

kernel: KVM: arm64: Take the SRCU lock for page table walks in fault injection and AT emulation

Additional References

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