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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98464" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:15:16.624Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:20:02.501Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z" 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-2026-98464" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98464.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98464" title: "RISC-V: KVM: Synchronize hrtimer callback during teardown" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRISC-V: KVM: Synchronize hrtimer callback during teardown\n\nThe non-Sstc hrtimer callback clears next_set before its final uses of\nthe enclosing vCPU. If teardown observes next_set as false while the\ncallback is still running, kvm_riscv_vcpu_timer_cancel() skips\nhrtimer_cancel() and kvm_destroy_vcpus() can free the vCPU before the\ncallback enters kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_interrupt().\n\nA guest can arm the timer with SBI TIME and request shutdown with SBI\nlegacy shutdown or SRST. A VMM that honors KVM_EXIT_SYSTEM_EVENT and\ndestroys the VM supplies the teardown side of the race; no post-launch\nhost ioctl is needed to arm or request teardown.\n\nOn upstream master 62cc90241548, generic KASAN reported:\n\n BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock\n Write of size 4 at addr ff60000005e58898\n\n kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_interrupt\n kvm_riscv_vcpu_hrtimer_expired\n __hrtimer_run_queues\n hrtimer_interrupt\n\nThe object was allocated by KVM_CREATE_VCPU and freed concurrently by:\n\n kvm_destroy_vcpus\n kvm_arch_destroy_vm\n kvm_destroy_vm\n __fput\n\nFor deterministic validation, I added mdelay(1000) immediately after\nthe existing next_set = false assignment. This only widens the\nexisting post-clear callback window. A no-delay trace build naturally\nreached the callback-after-teardown-start/before-deinit ordering in 12\nof 200 runs, but 1,500 stock-kernel stress iterations did not produce a\nKASAN report, so natural reproduction is timing-sensitive.\n\nAlways invoke hrtimer_cancel() for an initialized timer. Preserve the\nexisting -EINVAL result when the timer is no longer set, but only after\nsynchronizing with a running callback.\n\nWith this patch, hrtimer_cancel() blocked for the full widened callback\nwindow before vCPU destruction. KASAN reported no error in 100\nfixed-and-widened runs or 200 fix-only timing-sweep runs." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3a9f66cb25e18a3eeca36c08d9f823a35b3ddc22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9bdbae64ae0dab93041ebc57ec4e93def793fc2d"},{"version":"3a9f66cb25e18a3eeca36c08d9f823a35b3ddc22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2af03b606aadaaeb386658ef798c79bdcdef87c1"},{"version":"3a9f66cb25e18a3eeca36c08d9f823a35b3ddc22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e66aced74f0122380603c9910a71d77618b28f0e"},{"version":"3a9f66cb25e18a3eeca36c08d9f823a35b3ddc22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ea91f05a55b807ead3166546a2c75f4185ca645f"},{"version":"3a9f66cb25e18a3eeca36c08d9f823a35b3ddc22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3cc6184bd5920c9685d87f4e260568feba08650d"},{"version":"3a9f66cb25e18a3eeca36c08d9f823a35b3ddc22","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aaad136d56d91252517272b68cd533e5714698d5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.55","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","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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