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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-64604" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-06T07:13:55.718Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-17T04:58:27.506Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-64604" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-64604.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64604" title: "KVM: VMX: Grab vmcs12 on CR8 interception update iff vCPU is in guest mode" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: VMX: Grab vmcs12 on CR8 interception update iff vCPU is in guest mode\n\nWhen updating CR8 intercepts, get vmcs12 if and only if the vCPU is in\nguest mode so that a future change can have update CR8 intercepts during\nvCPU creation, without running afoul of get_vmcs12()'s lockdep assertion.\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n debug_locks && !(lock_is_held(&(&vcpu-\u003emutex)-\u003edep_map) || !refcount_read(&vcpu-\u003ekvm-\u003eusers_count))\n WARNING: arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h:61 at get_vmcs12 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h:60 [inline], CPU#0: syz.2.19/5879\n WARNING: arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h:61 at vmx_update_cr8_intercept+0x3de/0x4e0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6879, CPU#0: syz.2.19/5879\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5879 Comm: syz.2.19 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.2-debian-1.16.2-1 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:get_vmcs12 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.h:60 [inline]\n RIP: 0010:vmx_update_cr8_intercept+0x3de/0x4e0 arch/x86/kvm/vmx/vmx.c:6879\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n apic_update_ppr arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:984 [inline]\n kvm_lapic_reset+0x1c24/0x2980 arch/x86/kvm/lapic.c:3023\n kvm_vcpu_reset+0x44c/0x1bf0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:12986\n kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x746/0x8b0 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:12847\n kvm_vm_ioctl_create_vcpu+0x428/0x930 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4201\n kvm_vm_ioctl+0x893/0xd50 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5159\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:597 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:583\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0x174/0x580 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nNo functional change intended." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c7cd3605244c924249dea32632e1bc3e89bda543"},{"version":"a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a21f1defd96c6301c5fb462a78eb51b191bd2dd"},{"version":"a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"570af5db081b87374594a00711ac5760d2ea6844"},{"version":"a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ffaaff82336db84e9b58e7a3e81c2fd64e05ed7a"},{"version":"a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"258ec63c0f281bf7b50f9de67c8e93b5b7be5ed4"},{"version":"a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3dcfb04dd43b16fa1240fc6487fff578ad57264c"},{"version":"a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"db8407b9fd06d857a4a5e8bcff1d086d13007711"},{"version":"a7c0b07d570848e50fce4d31ac01313484d6b844","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7ef78d71ca713d8c00f7c34ddcf276c808143f77"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.18"},{"version":"5.10.261","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.212","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.178","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.145","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.39","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## 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