Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-72285

Linux Linux

KVM: TDX: Reject concurrent change to CPUID entry count

CVSS 3.1
7.8High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: TDX: Reject concurrent change to CPUID entry count Reject KVM_TDX_INIT_VM if userspace changes cpuid.nent between the initial read and the subsequent copy of the initialization data. tdx_td_init() first reads user_data->cpuid.nent to size the flexible kvm_tdx_init_vm copy. The copied structure also contains cpuid.nent, and that field can differ from the value used to size the allocation if userspace modifies the input concurrently. setup_tdparams_cpuids() later passes init_vm->cpuid.nent to kvm_find_cpuid_entry2(), which uses it as the array bound for the copied entries. Require the copied count to match the value used to size the allocation so that CPUID parsing cannot access beyond the entries actually copied.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.19 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 0bd0a4a1428baaf4447e95f0832492d9e3d64961 ≤ v < d6b5aba65e99531c97b146622a406c75653819d5 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 0bd0a4a1428baaf4447e95f0832492d9e3d64961 ≤ v < cfbebb55e5127dc162e73fa8956000055a78606c CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-08-15
Last updated
2026-08-17
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.16%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
5.7%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

Weaknesses (CWE)

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