CVE-2026-46113

Technical Description

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

KVM: x86: Fix shadow paging use-after-free due to unexpected GFN

The shadow MMU computes GFNs for direct shadow pages using sp->gfn plus

the SPTE index. This assumption breaks for shadow paging if the guest

page tables are modified between VM entries (similar to commit

aad885e77496, "KVM: x86/mmu: Drop/zap existing present SPTE even

when creating an MMIO SPTE", 2026-03-27). The flow is as follows:

- a PDE is installed for a 2MB mapping, and a page in that area is

accessed. KVM creates a kvm_mmu_page consisting of 512 4KB pages;

the kvm_mmu_page is marked by FNAME(fetch) as direct-mapped because

the guest's mapping is a huge page (and thus contiguous).

- the PDE mapping is changed from outside the guest.

- the guest accesses another page in the same 2MB area. KVM installs

a new leaf SPTE and rmap entry; the SPTE uses the "correct" GFN

(i.e. based on the new mapping, as changed in the previous step) but

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References