CVE-2026-74439
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down scalable-mode context entry
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down scalable-mode context entry device_pasid_table_teardown() zeroes the 128-bit scalable-mode context entry with context_clear_entry() while the Present bit is still set. This creates a window where the hardware can fetch a torn entry, with some fields already zeroed while Present is still set, leading to unpredictable behavior or spurious faults. The context-cache invalidation is issued only after the entry has been zeroed, and intel_pasid_free_table() then frees the PASID directory pages, so the IOMMU can keep walking a stale Present=1 entry that points at freed memory. While x86 provides strong write ordering, the compiler may reorder the two 64-bit writes to the entry, and the hardware fetch is not guaranteed to be atomic with respect to multiple CPU writes. Commit c1e4f1dccbe9d ("iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down context entry") fixed this exact pattern in domain_context_clear_one() and the copied-context path, but device_pasid_table_teardown() was not converted. Align it with the "Guidance to Software for Invalidations" in the VT-d spec, Section 6.5.3.3, using the same ownership handshake as the sibling fix: clear only the Present bit, flush it to the IOMMU, perform the context-cache invalidation, and only then zero the rest of the entry.
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
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6d | affected | git | e9e83bcfe37dc719182500dd823c03ab57d934f0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6d | affected | git | 588718101e8449605f1c7e858fecb7cfa701cdab | Unavailable | None listed |
| 81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6d | affected | git | 7fd4077dc92b91b1b844333c0a06bb9e286db10a | Unavailable | None listed |
| 81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6d | affected | git | f46452c3df7a8d8a5addc0926e76ef19ea7da0a0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 333fe86968482ca701c609af590003bcea450e8f | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.8.2 | affected | semver | 6.9 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.9 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 6.9 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.12.97 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.40 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.1.5 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.1.* | None listed |
| 7.2 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |