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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-102916"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-09T14:12:08.832Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-09T21:07:26.509Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:50.502Z"
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-2026-102916"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-102916.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-102916"
title: "Reachable assertion in illumos bhyve REP string instruction emulation allows guest to panic host"
summary: "A reachable assertion in the illumos bhyve instruction emulator allows a guest to panic the host. When emulating a REP-prefixed MOVS or STOS instruction that accesses guest MMIO, vie_emulate_movs() and vie_emulate_stos() in usr/src/uts/intel/io/vmm/vmm_instruction_emul.c do not clear the VIES_REPEAT status flag on the final iteration. For MMIO regions emulated in the kernel (the local APIC, I/O APIC and HPET), the stale flag causes a VERIFY assertion in vie_advance_pc() to fail, and the host panics. A privileged user within a guest VM can issue a REP MOVS or REP STOS instruction against the local APIC page to cause a denial of service of the host and every other guest running on it. The flaw has existed since 2020 (illumos-gate commit e0c0d44e), and affects any illumos distribution prior to illumos-gate commit 696ecf8d."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e0c0d44e917080841514d0dd031a696c74e8c435","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"696ecf8debceed9dc33937d8c8e111e4aeebfdae","changes":[{"at":"696ecf8debceed9dc33937d8c8e111e4aeebfdae","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"illumos","product":"illumos-gate","packageName":"system/bhyve","collectionURL":"https://illumos.org","platforms":["x86"],"defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[{"version":"any","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"r151054"},{"version":"r151058","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"r151058w","changes":[{"at":"r151058w","status":"unaffected"}]},{"version":"r151056","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"r151056aw","changes":[{"at":"r151056aw","status":"unaffected"}]},{"version":"r151054","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"r151054bw","changes":[{"at":"r151054bw","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"OmniOS","product":"OmniOS","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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