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CVE-2026-74439

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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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
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6daffectedgite9e83bcfe37dc719182500dd823c03ab57d934f0UnavailableNone listed
81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6daffectedgit588718101e8449605f1c7e858fecb7cfa701cdabUnavailableNone listed
81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6daffectedgit7fd4077dc92b91b1b844333c0a06bb9e286db10aUnavailableNone listed
81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6daffectedgitf46452c3df7a8d8a5addc0926e76ef19ea7da0a0UnavailableNone listed
333fe86968482ca701c609af590003bcea450e8faffectedgitUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
6.8.2affectedsemver6.9UnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6.9affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.9UnavailableNone listed
6.12.97unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.40unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.1.5unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.1.*None listed
7.2unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed