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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-46830" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-09-27T12:39:28.396Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:38:52.433Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-46830" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-46830.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-46830" title: "KVM: x86: Acquire kvm-\u003esrcu when handling KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86: Acquire kvm-\u003esrcu when handling KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS\n\nGrab kvm-\u003esrcu when processing KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS, as KVM will forcibly\nleave nested VMX/SVM if SMM mode is being toggled, and leaving nested VMX\nreads guest memory.\n\nNote, kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_set_vcpu_events() can also be called from KVM_RUN\nvia sync_regs(), which already holds SRCU. I.e. trying to precisely use\nkvm_vcpu_srcu_read_lock() around the problematic SMM code would cause\nproblems. Acquiring SRCU isn't all that expensive, so for simplicity,\ngrab it unconditionally for KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS.\n\n =============================\n WARNING: suspicious RCU usage\n 6.10.0-rc7-332d2c1d713e-next-vm #552 Not tainted\n -----------------------------\n include/linux/kvm_host.h:1027 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!\n\n other info that might help us debug this:\n\n rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1\n 1 lock held by repro/1071:\n #0: ffff88811e424430 (&vcpu-\u003emutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x7d/0x970 [kvm]\n\n stack backtrace:\n CPU: 15 PID: 1071 Comm: repro Not tainted 6.10.0-rc7-332d2c1d713e-next-vm #552\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n dump_stack_lvl+0x7f/0x90\n lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x13f/0x1a0\n kvm_vcpu_gfn_to_memslot+0x168/0x190 [kvm]\n kvm_vcpu_read_guest+0x3e/0x90 [kvm]\n nested_vmx_load_msr+0x6b/0x1d0 [kvm_intel]\n load_vmcs12_host_state+0x432/0xb40 [kvm_intel]\n vmx_leave_nested+0x30/0x40 [kvm_intel]\n kvm_vcpu_ioctl_x86_set_vcpu_events+0x15d/0x2b0 [kvm]\n kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0x1107/0x1750 [kvm]\n ? mark_held_locks+0x49/0x70\n ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x7d/0x970 [kvm]\n ? kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x497/0x970 [kvm]\n kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x497/0x970 [kvm]\n ? lock_acquire+0xba/0x2d0\n ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80\n ? do_user_addr_fault+0x40c/0x6f0\n ? lock_release+0xb7/0x270\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x82/0xb0\n do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x170\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n RIP: 0033:0x7ff11eb1b539\n \u003c/TASK\u003e" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e302786233e6bc512986d007c96458ccf5ca21c7","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5f35099fa3d59caf10bda88b033538e90086684e"},{"version":"f7e570780efc5cec9b2ed1e0472a7da14e864fdb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fa297c33faefe51e10244e8a378837fca4963228"},{"version":"f7e570780efc5cec9b2ed1e0472a7da14e864fdb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"939375737b5a0b1bf9b1e75129054e11bc9ca65e"},{"version":"f7e570780efc5cec9b2ed1e0472a7da14e864fdb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ecdbe8ac86fb5538ccc623a41f88ec96c7168ab9"},{"version":"f7e570780efc5cec9b2ed1e0472a7da14e864fdb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4bcdd831d9d01e0fb64faea50732b59b2ee88da1"},{"version":"080dbe7e9b86a0392d8dffc00d9971792afc121f","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"b4c0d89c92e957ecccce12e66b63875d0cc7af7e","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.19","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.198"},{"version":"5.10.97","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.16.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.17"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.51","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.10.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.10.*"},{"version":"6.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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