Bug 2516288 (CVE-2026-72278) - CVE-2026-72278 kernel: KVM: arm64: nv: Re-translate VNCR before injecting abort
Summary: CVE-2026-72278 kernel: KVM: arm64: nv: Re-translate VNCR before injecting abort
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-72278
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-15 06:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-18 05:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-15 06:04:39 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: nv: Re-translate VNCR before injecting abort

KVM faults in the VNCR page with FOLL_WRITE whenever the guest aborts
for a write, similar to how a regular stage-2 mapping is handled. It is
entirely possible that the guest reads from the VNCR before writing to
it, in which case the PFN could only be read-only.

Invalidate the VNCR TLB and re-fetch the translation upon taking a VNCR
abort, allowing the host mapping to be faulted in for write the second
time around. Interestingly enough, this also satisfies the ordering
requirements of FEAT_ETS2/3 between descriptor updates and MMU faults.


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