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Linux CVE-2026-64247

| EUVDEUVD-2026-48656 HIGH
Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)
2026-07-24 Linux GHSA-2rqc-j7rg-xg47
8.4
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Linux
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Vendor (Linux) PRIMARY
8.4 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H
SUSE
HIGH
qualitative
Red Hat
7.0 MEDIUM
qualitative

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CVSS VectorVendor: Linux

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Jul 27, 2026 - 05:26 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Jul 27, 2026 - 05:22 NVD
8.4 (HIGH)
Patch available
Jul 24, 2026 - 17:48 EUVD
CVE Published
Jul 24, 2026 - 15:31 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Jul 24, 2026 - 15:31 cve.org
HIGH 8.4

DescriptionCVE.org

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

KVM: x86: hyper-v: Bound the bank index when querying sparse banks

When checking if a VP ID is included in a sparse bank set, explicitly check that the ID can actually be contained in a sparse bank (the TLFS allows for a maximum of 64 banks of 64 vCPUs each). When handling a paravirtual TLB flush for L2, the VP ID is copied verbatim from the enlightened VMCS, without any bounds check, i.e. isn't guaranteed to be under the limit of 4096.

Failure to check the bounds of the VP ID leads to an out-of-bounds read when testing the sparse bank, and super strictly speaking could lead to KVM performing an unnecessary TLB flush for an L2 vCPU.

============== BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in hv_is_vp_in_sparse_set+0x85/0x100 [kvm] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88811ba5f598 by task hyperv_evmcs/2802

CPU: 12 UID: 1000 PID: 2802 Comm: hyperv_evmcs Not tainted 7.1.0-rc2 #7 PREEMPT Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x51/0x60 print_report+0xcb/0x5d0 kasan_report+0xb4/0xe0 kasan_check_range+0x35/0x1b0 hv_is_vp_in_sparse_set+0x85/0x100 [kvm] kvm_hv_flush_tlb+0xe9e/0x16c0 [kvm] kvm_hv_hypercall+0xe6b/0x1e60 [kvm] vmx_handle_exit+0x485/0x1b60 [kvm_intel] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x22e3/0x5070 [kvm] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x5d0/0x10c0 [kvm] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x129/0x1a0 do_syscall_64+0xb9/0xcf0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x7f0e62d1a9bf </TASK>

The buggy address belongs to the physical page: page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0xffffffffffffffff pfn:0x11ba5f flags: 0x4000000000000000(zone=1) raw: 4000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 raw: ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

Memory state around the buggy address: ffff88811ba5f480: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ffff88811ba5f500: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff >ffff88811ba5f580: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ^ ffff88811ba5f600: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ffff88811ba5f680: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ============== Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint

Opportunistically add a compile time assertion to ensure the maximum number of sparse banks exactly matches the number of possible bits in the passed in mask.

[sean: add KASAN splat, drop comment, add assert, massage changelog]

AnalysisAI

We need to produce a JSON with various fields. We'll synthesize from data: CVE-2026-64247. The vulnerability is in Linux kernel, KVM x86 Hyper-V, a bounds check missing for sparse bank index, leading to out-of-bounds read (KASAN: use-after-free). Technical: KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) with Hyper-V emulation, specifically the paravirtual TLB flush for L2 guests via enlightened VMCS. VP ID is copied verbatim without bounds check. With a large VP ID (>= 4096), it causes out-of-bounds read on sparse bank bitmask (max 64 banks of 64 vCPUs each = 4096). Impact: possible unnecessary TLB flush, but the KASAN splat shows use-after-free? Actually the bug is out-of-bounds read of a bitmask, which KASAN logs as use-after-free? Let's see: "KASAN: use-after-free in hv_is_vp_in_sparse_set" but description says out-of-bounds read. Probably the address is bogus. It might lead to information disclosure (H high confidentiality impact) or denial of service (A high) but AV:L, PR:L (needs local access to guest to trigger the hypercall? Actually the attacker is a guest VM user triggering hypercalls via CPUID? The description: "When handling a paravirtual TLB flush for L2, the VP ID is copied verbatim from the enlightened VMCS, without bounds check." The bug is in KVM code handling a hypercall from the guest. The attacker would be a malicious guest (L2) that can execute hypercalls. So the access vector is local (from guest VM) with low privileges (normal user in guest). Scope changed? CVSS says S:C, meaning the vulnerable component is the host/KVM and the impact is to the host (confidentiality high, availability high). So an out-of-bounds read could leak host memory, and could crash host. That's plausible. So the assessed CVSS might be similar. Already provided: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H. We'll use that but need to confirm independence? The instruction: "Your OWN independent CVSS 3.1 base-metric vector for THIS vulnerability, grounded in the description and exploi

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Important
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0 Affected

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