CVE-2026-64282: KVM: arm64: Don't leak PFN when kvm_translate_vncr() races MMU notifier

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 10:48:19 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-cve-announce
Message-ID <2026072502-CVE-2026-64282-842c@gregkh>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Description
===========

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

KVM: arm64: Don't leak PFN when kvm_translate_vncr() races MMU notifier

In the case that kvm_translate_vncr() races with an MMU notifier the
early return does not release a reference on the faulted in PFN. Add
the necessary call to kvm_release_faultin_page() for the unused PFN.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-64282 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 069a05e53549685d2b5e54ceb51db1fd04aa50d7 and fixed in 6.18.39 with commit 0c93681aea0a1b8be14730a88abe77c840272e41
	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 069a05e53549685d2b5e54ceb51db1fd04aa50d7 and fixed in 7.1.4 with commit cd1067ccc0dbc18890a74db116d00a4bc3c7f2f7
	Issue introduced in 6.16 with commit 069a05e53549685d2b5e54ceb51db1fd04aa50d7 and fixed in 7.2-rc1 with commit 9f76b039a72d7e06374aa96862f0232ed53f7787

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-64282
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	arch/arm64/kvm/nested.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0c93681aea0a1b8be14730a88abe77c840272e41
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd1067ccc0dbc18890a74db116d00a4bc3c7f2f7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f76b039a72d7e06374aa96862f0232ed53f7787