CVE-2026-53277

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

HIGH
8.8
CVSS Score
Published: June 25, 2026 at 08:40 AM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH8.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

Description

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

6.12 ≤ v < 6.18.366.19 ≤ v < 7.0.137.17.1 rc17.1 rc27.1 rc37.1 rc47.1 rc57.1 rc6be04cebf3e78874627dc1042991d5d504464a5cc
Vendor states this is fixed in 97706097f9b851cfe55c3b00b083dfc2bcf542bc (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in ec42b4ed1b072ea2d03f086061aa67bad6d8de39 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f2ca45b50d4216c9cc7ffabf50d9ad1932209251 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.114 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.36 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

References (8)

CVSS

8.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-820CWE-662

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