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CVE-2026-98164

medium

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces kvm_gfn_is_write_tracked() check…

Vendor / product: Linux — linux kernel

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86/mmu: Check write tracking in all address spaces kvm_gfn_is_write_tracked() checks only the supplied memslot, but page tracking is per-address-space and shadow pages are shared across all address spaces. With SMM, a GFN can therefore be write-tracked in one address space and appear untracked through the other. Check the supplied slot first, then the slot for the other address space. This ensures all callers honor write tracking regardless of the active address space. In particular, it prevents mmu_try_to_unsync_pages() from marking an upper-level shadow page unsync and eventually triggering the BUG in pte_list_remove(). [invert direction of the conditional. - Paolo]

CVSS
5.5
5.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-09-29 13:17
Modified: 2026-10-07 07:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 06:56 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

linux / linux_kernel ≥4.2 <6.1.187, ≥6.2 <6.6.156, ≥6.7 <6.12.108, ≥6.13 <6.18.49, ≥6.19 <7.1.13, 7.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09aa68552d2542cc6c23edd1568ac265dc5d886f
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f38453cdb2e17566ccb7c0f3dabd5bd21caca26
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/429b6f43b4d8c98988fdca99e02dc156134e3d77
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c0a9bd5fca0b5f2dea32b0fc31350e71e8648112
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8636c8f9f95d0fd1e2f6f1cad0d5757aa6f212a
Patch / mitigation: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec8fcaf354c1cbb36755d48e9f5a00c9591349e5

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 06:56 UTC · record ↗

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