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CVE-2026-72277

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

9.3 Critical severity

Details

CVSS score
9.3
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: nv: Inject SEA if guest VNCR isn’t normal memory

When constructing an L1 VNCR mapping, KVM unconditionally uses cacheable memory attributes, even if the underlying PFN isn’t memory. This gets particularly hairy if the endpoint doesn’t support cacheable memory attributes, potentially throwing an SError on writeback…

While KVM does permit cacheable memory attributes on certain PFNMAP VMAs, kvm_translate_vncr() isn’t currently grabbing the VMA. So do the simpler thing for now and just reject everything that isn’t memory.

Details

Affected product:
Debian 10 ELS
Affected packages:
linux @ 4.19.0

Fixes

KernelCare state

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.

Operating system Status Covered kernels
Ubuntu 26.04 Planned —