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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-68093" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-10T11:58:05.933Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-19T16:29:15.060Z" 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-2026-68093" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-68093.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68093" title: "KVM: SVM: Bump asid_generation on CPU online to avoid ASID collision after hotplug" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: SVM: Bump asid_generation on CPU online to avoid ASID collision after hotplug\n\nIf a vCPU stays scheduled out (or blocked) while the last pCPU it ran\non goes through a hotplug cycle (online-\u003eoffline-\u003eonline), and the vCPU\nthen resumes execution on the same pCPU, then it is possible for it to\nrun with an ASID that has now been assigned to a different vCPU,\nresulting in stale TLB translations being used.\n\nsvm_enable_virtualization_cpu() resets asid_generation to 1 and sets\nnext_asid to max_asid + 1 on every CPU online event, including hotplug\ncycles. Because next_asid starts beyond the pool boundary, the first\ncall to new_asid() after an online event always wraps the pool,\nincrementing asid_generation to 2 and assigning ASIDs starting from\nmin_asid.\n\nConsider two vCPUs from different VMs, vCPU-A pinned to CPU-X holding\nasid_generation=2 and ASID=N from before the hotplug event:\n\n 1. CPU-X goes offline and back online: asid_generation resets to 1,\n next_asid = max_asid + 1.\n\n 2. One or more vCPUs migrate to CPU-X and call new_asid(), wrapping\n the pool and consuming ASIDs starting from min_asid. Eventually\n vCPU-B from a different VM is assigned asid_generation=2, ASID=N\n — the same ASID that vCPU-A held before the hotplug.\n\n 3. vCPU-A enters pre_svm_run() on CPU-X: current_vmcb-\u003ecpu is\n unchanged so the migration branch is skipped. Its saved\n asid_generation=2 matches sd-\u003easid_generation=2, so the generation\n check silently passes and vCPU-A continues running with ASID=N —\n the same ASID just freshly assigned to vCPU-B.\n\nBoth vCPUs from different VMs now run on CPU-X with the same ASID,\ncausing them to share NPT TLB entries and producing stale translations.\n\nThe collision manifests as a KVM internal error (Suberror: 1, emulation\nfailure). The NPT page fault reports a faulting GPA far outside the\nVM's physical memory range — a sign of stale TLB translations being\nused. KVM falls back to instruction emulation, which fails on\nFPU/XSave instructions (XRSTOR, STMXCSR) that the emulator does not\nimplement.\n\nFix this by incrementing asid_generation instead of resetting it to 1\nin svm_enable_virtualization_cpu(). On module load, asid_generation\nstarts at 0 (memset) and the increment produces 1, identical to the\nold behaviour. On subsequent hotplug cycles the generation advances\nbeyond any value a vCPU previously observed on this CPU, so the\ngeneration check in pre_svm_run() reliably forces new_asid() on every\nvCPU after every hotplug cycle." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2028b81321dc757b6875b99c10d908e349c141e2"},{"version":"774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60283726f2845bd78b95efbd0e50b93944780477"},{"version":"774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7508916b4b55d6f5ecc68cd09774dabd3a6b4440"},{"version":"774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f33b1c457c2199ed130b92cc2ff363a3f7b9415"},{"version":"774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b542d116acecb83a1ca34e8eace304cff6a4ec9"},{"version":"774c47f1d78e373a6bd2964f4e278d1ce26c21cb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"25f744ffa0c8e799e06250ce2e618367b166b0d4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.21","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.21"},{"version":"6.1.183","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.148","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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