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CVE-2025-37936

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Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2025
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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perf/x86/intel: KVM: Mask PEBS_ENABLE loaded for guest with vCPU's value.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: perf/x86/intel: KVM: Mask PEBS_ENABLE loaded for guest with vCPU's value. When generating the MSR_IA32_PEBS_ENABLE value that will be loaded on VM-Entry to a KVM guest, mask the value with the vCPU's desired PEBS_ENABLE value. Consulting only the host kernel's host vs. guest masks results in running the guest with PEBS enabled even when the guest doesn't want to use PEBS. Because KVM uses perf events to proxy the guest virtual PMU, simply looking at exclude_host can't differentiate between events created by host userspace, and events created by KVM on behalf of the guest. Running the guest with PEBS unexpectedly enabled typically manifests as crashes due to a near-infinite stream of #PFs. E.g. if the guest hasn't written MSR_IA32_DS_AREA, the CPU will hit page faults on address '0' when trying to record PEBS events. The issue is most easily reproduced by running `perf kvm top` from before commit 7b100989b4f6 ("perf evlist: Remove __evlist__add_default") (after which, `perf kvm top` effectively stopped using PEBS). The userspace side of perf creates a guest-only PEBS event, which intel_guest_get_msrs() misconstrues a guest-*owned* PEBS event. Arguably, this is a userspace bug, as enabling PEBS on guest-only events simply cannot work, and userspace can kill VMs in many other ways (there is no danger to the host). However, even if this is considered to be bad userspace behavior, there's zero downside to perf/KVM restricting PEBS to guest-owned events. Note, commit 854250329c02 ("KVM: x86/pmu: Disable guest PEBS temporarily in two rare situations") fixed the case where host userspace is profiling KVM *and* userspace, but missed the case where userspace is profiling only KVM.

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
c59a1f106f5cd4843c097069ff1bb2ad72103a67affectedgit160153cf9e4aa875ad086cc094ce34aac8e13d63UnavailableNone listed
c59a1f106f5cd4843c097069ff1bb2ad72103a67affectedgit34b6fa11431aef71045ae5a00d90a7d630597edaUnavailableNone listed
c59a1f106f5cd4843c097069ff1bb2ad72103a67affectedgit44ee0afc9d1e7a7c1932698de01362ed80cfc4b5UnavailableNone listed
c59a1f106f5cd4843c097069ff1bb2ad72103a67affectedgit86aa62895fc2fb7ab09d7ca40fae8ad09841f66bUnavailableNone listed
c59a1f106f5cd4843c097069ff1bb2ad72103a67affectedgit58f6217e5d0132a9f14e401e62796916aa055c1bUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6.0affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.0UnavailableNone listed
6.1.138unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.90unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.28unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.14.6unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.14.*None listed
6.15unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed