Copyright © 2012 Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. Moderate 2026-07-25T00:00:00 kernel: KVM: arm64: nv: Avoid dereferencing NULL VNCR pseudo-TLB 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CWE-476

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: nv: Avoid dereferencing NULL VNCR pseudo-TLB VNCR TLB invalidation occurs from MMU notifiers or TLBI instructions, and either can race against a vcpu not being onlined yet (no pseudo-TLB allocated). Similarly, the TLB might be invalid, and the invalidation should be skipped in this case. Both kvm_invalidate_vncr_ipa() and kvm_invalidate_vncr_va() are expected to perform the same checks, except that the latter doesn't check for the allocation and blindly dereferences the pointer. Solve this by introducing a new iterator built on top of the usual kvm_for_each_vcpu() that checks for both of the above conditions, and convert the two users to it.

A flaw was found in the kernel's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) component for ARM64 architectures. A race condition can occur during the invalidation of the virtual Nested Translation Cache (VNCR pseudo-TLB) when a virtual CPU (vcpu) is being brought online or offline. This can lead to a null pointer dereference, which could cause the system to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Fix deferred kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Not affected kernel-rt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected kernel Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Not affected kernel-rt https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64288 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-64288 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026072503-CVE-2026-64288-c17b@gregkh/T