SUSE CVE-2026-89932

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nVMX: Always flush vpid02 on first use Make sure vpid02 is always flushed on first use by setting lastvpid=0 when allocating vpid02. nestedvmxtransitiontlbflush will always detect a VPID change on first VM-Enter after VMXON,...

Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Linux 5.10, Linux, Linux 5.15

A issue was discovered in arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c in the Linux kernel before 6.2.8. nVMX on x8664 lacks consistency checks for CR0 and CR4...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-2596

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - The nestedvmxcheckvmptr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 improperly emulates the VMXON instruction, which allows KVM L1 guest OS...

CVE-2025-21839 KVM: x86: Load DR6 with guest value only before entering .vcpu_run() loop

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Load DR6 with guest value only before entering .vcpurun loop Move the conditional loading of hardware DR6 with the guest's DR6 value out of the core .vcpurun loop to fix a bug where KVM can load hardware with a stale...

CVE-2025-21839: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Load DR6 with guest value only before entering .vcpurun loop Move the conditional loading of hardware DR6 with the guest's DR6 value out of the core .vcpurun loop to fix a bug where KVM can load hardware with a stale...

CVE-2024-46830

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Acquire kvm-srcu when handling KVMSETVCPUEVENTS Grab kvm-srcu when processing KVMSETVCPUEVENTS, as KVM will forcibly leave nested VMX/SVM if SMM mode is being toggled, and leaving nested VMX reads guest memory. Note,...

CVE-2024-46830 KVM: x86: Acquire kvm->srcu when handling KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Acquire kvm-srcu when handling KVMSETVCPUEVENTS Grab kvm-srcu when processing KVMSETVCPUEVENTS, as KVM will forcibly leave nested VMX/SVM if SMM mode is being toggled, and leaving nested VMX reads guest memory. Note,...

CVE-2024-46830: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: Acquire kvm-srcu when handling KVMSETVCPUEVENTS Grab kvm-srcu when processing KVMSETVCPUEVENTS, as KVM will forcibly leave nested VMX/SVM if SMM mode is being toggled, and leaving nested VMX reads guest memory. Note,...

PT-2023-2381

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 6.2.8 Description An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel related to the lack of consistency checks for CR0 and CR4 in nVMX on x86 64. This issue is associated with the function nested vmx check guest state i...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-2596

The nestedvmxcheckvmptr function in arch/x86/kvm/vmx.c in the Linux kernel through 4.9.8 improperly emulates the VMXON instruction, which allows KVM L1 guest OS users to cause a denial of service host OS memory consumption by leveraging the mishandling of page references...

PT-2017-1185 · Linux +5 · Linux Kernel +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 4.9.8 Description: The issue is related to errors in resource management in the nested vmx check vmptr function of the Linux operating system. This can be exploited by a local attacker to cause a denial of...