# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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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.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43265"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-06T11:28:51.552Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:21:13.005Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43265"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43265.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43265"
title: "KVM: x86: Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events from vcpu_block()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86: Ignore -EBUSY when checking nested events from vcpu_block()\n\nIgnore -EBUSY when checking nested events after exiting a blocking state\nwhile L2 is active, as exiting to userspace will generate a spurious\nuserspace exit, usually with KVM_EXIT_UNKNOWN, and likely lead to the VM's\ndemise.  Continuing with the wakeup isn't perfect either, as *something*\nhas gone sideways if a vCPU is awakened in L2 with an injected event (or\nworse, a nested run pending), but continuing on gives the VM a decent\nchance of surviving without any major side effects.\n\nAs explained in the Fixes commits, it _should_ be impossible for a vCPU to\nbe put into a blocking state with an already-injected event (exception,\nIRQ, or NMI).  Unfortunately, userspace can stuff MP_STATE and/or injected\nevents, and thus put the vCPU into what should be an impossible state.\n\nDon't bother trying to preserve the WARN, e.g. with an anti-syzkaller\nKconfig, as WARNs can (hopefully) be added in paths where _KVM_ would be\nviolating x86 architecture, e.g. by WARNing if KVM attempts to inject an\nexception or interrupt while the vCPU isn't running."
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