CVE-2026-63875
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
arm64: tlb: Flush walk cache when unsharing PMD tables
When huge_pmd_unshare() is called to unshare a PMD table, the tlb_unshare_pmd_ptdesc() function sets tlb->unshared_tables=true but the aarch64 tlb_flush() only checked tlb->freed_tables to determine whether to use TLBF_NONE (vae1is, invalidates walk cache) or TLBF_NOWALKCACHE (vale1is, leaf-only).
This caused the stale PMD page table entry to remain in the walk cache after unshare, potentially leading to incorrect page table walks.
Fix by including unshared_tables in the check, so that when unsharing tables, TLBF_NONE is used and the walk cache is properly invalidated.
Here is the detailed distinction between vae1is and vale1is:
| Instruction Combination | Actual Invalidation Scope | | ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------| | VAE1IS + TTL=0 | All entries at all levels (full invalidation) | | VAE1IS + TTL=2 (L2) | Non-leaf at Level 0/1 + leaf at Level 2 | | VALE1IS + TTL=0 | Leaf entries at all levels (non-leaf not cleared) | | VALE1IS + TTL=2 (L2) | Leaf entry at Level 2 only |
Affected products
15- osv-coords14 versionspkg:linux/kernelpkg:rpm/opensuse/dtb-aarch64&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-64kb&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-azure&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-default&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-default-base&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-docs&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-kvmsmall&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-obs-build&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-obs-qa&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-rt&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-source&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-syms&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/kernel-zfcpdump&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0
< 5.10.259+ 13 more
- (no CPE)range: < 5.10.259
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1.160000.2.19
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.12.0-160000.37.1
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
8- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0199c9d57861f17b556b6cba1f765c7cce79745bnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/47490bbb05c8c0e09cc3cfd237d8934ffc340583nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/48125cd9c55cbe297b59fd1f9bda48b0960bd181nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ca7284da0e67b3e71d90ec17f08286774245ad9nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2ff4764e03e7a8d758352f4aceb8fe1be6ac971nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d766a49d9b55705c4737cd8bb5d3faa2d31330fdnvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/dced308d7d6a0de1c09d2058f38f1aaaf5cbb914nvd
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe93e907b1af03cc229a80aa64a570a103d2b279nvd
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