CVE-2026-43096

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's mshv component. A malicious guest operating system could exploit this by attempting to write to read-only memory regions or execute code in non-executable regions. This can lead to an infinite fault loop, causing the virtual CPU vCPU to spin indefinitely and...

CVE-2024-40953

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Fix a data race on lastboostedvcpu in kvmvcpuonspin Use READ,WRITEONCE to access kvm-lastboostedvcpu to ensure the loads and stores are atomic. In the extremely unlikely scenario the compiler tears the stores, it's...

Linux kernel security vulnerabilities

Linux kernel is the kernel used by the Linux Foundation's open source operating system Linux. A security vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel that stems from a data contention issue in the kvmvcpuonspin function of the KVM virtualization component...