CVE-2026-64172

KVM: SVM: Disable AVIC IPI virtualization on Hygon Family 18h (erratum #1235)

HIGH
7.1
CVSS Score
Published: July 19, 2026 at 03:40 PM UTC
Updated: August 13, 2026 at 03:47 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Disable AVIC IPI virtualization on Hygon Family 18h (erratum #1235) Hygon Family 18h CPUs are derived from AMD Family 17h (Zen1) silicon and share the same erratum #1235: hardware may read a stale IsRunning=1 bit during ICR write emulation and silently fail to generate an AVIC_IPI_FAILURE_TARGET_NOT_RUNNING VM-Exit on the sending vCPU. The absence of the VM-Exit causes KVM to miss the required wakeup of blocking target vCPUs, leading to hung vCPUs and unbounded delays in guest execution. Extend the existing AMD Family 17h erratum #1235 workaround to also cover Hygon Family 18h. With IPI virtualization disabled, KVM never sets IsRunning=1 in the Physical ID table, so every non-self IPI generates a VM-Exit and is correctly emulated.

Affected

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

6.17 ≤ v < 6.18.346.17 ≤ v < 7.0.116.17 ≤ v < 7.16.19 ≤ v < 7.0.117.1 rc17.1 rc27.1 rc37.1 rc48de4a1c8164e5b2e40d1df764840a31de983f40b
Vendor states this is fixed in 94ade38f317ea086a181db0e6b69c574b3b70a5e (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9560e6fee887a9594a89fa265b5b9c79b1591803 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9a12fa5213cfc391e0eed63902d3be98f0913765 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.34 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

CVSS

7.1HIGHLinux
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