In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nVMX: Reset MMU back to the root MMU if loading L2 state fails for…
CVE-2026-99176
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: nVMX: Reset MMU back to the root MMU if loading L2 state fails for !VM-Entry Reset the vCPU's MMU pointer back to the root MMU if loading L2 state fails in the "not from VM-Entry" case, i.e. when emulating RSM or handling KVMSETNESTEDSTATE. Failure to unwind the MMU pointer results in KVM trying to run L1 with a nested MMU, and is especially problematic if the vCPU manages to free its nested state before the VM crashes. Constructing the root for a nested EPT MMU goes through vmcs12, which is dynamically allocated/freed when nVMX is enabled/disabled. And so if the nested state is freed with the MMU still pointing at the nested MMU, KVM will hit a NULL pointer deref when attempting to get L1=>L2 EPTP. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000078 PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode PF: errorcode(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 114a2d067 P4D 111743067 PUD 11141f067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 20 UID: 1000 PID: 1272 Comm: nestedtdpfaul Not tainted 7.3.0-rc4-8c89f11d1a99b-sink-vm #1914 PREEMPTLAZY Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP:…
Assessment
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- Severity
- Unscored
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 28 October 2026
- Last updated
- 30 October 2026
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
At the source
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a36b05fc5b3d660fcc826133dc92e2fc87bd1de
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2586874605ec23b611c57fe71d183d98f168971
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c611337aee17a0627e365e58e2b6e78803fb3c36
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c8f4cfe1cf93bce924e27f2abead7a4c4a487505
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c9716f956216eb74ab0aad7f633586edd49e0322
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d00d5f534a8238674755e59826a6c7d3c8efb870
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df4d01be5b318024bec68654c7af0ebc0e0ed8a1
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0c077c36fda9d498db39199e3997860e985efc8
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