CVE-2026-98716

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Use the active VMCB's MSR bitmap when checking if MSR is intercepted Use the MSR permission bitmap of the active VMCB instead of assuming that KVM is always using vmcb02's bitmap when L2 is active, as KVM uses msrpm02 if and only if L1 wants to intercept MSR accesses, i.e. if and only if KVM needs to merge msprm01 with msrpm12. Don't bother tracking the virtual address of the bitmap that's being used, as __va() is cheap on x86, and caching the virtual address would introduce yet another source of potentially stale information.

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2026-10-18

Modified

2026-10-21

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-22

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/318ef696fa3c712e46bb62a1a828c3cd62f390c3
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55865b3ae03705aa39198783b9cb1f8b96eb44e4
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74836ae4785b9754bb36d0b18fcc1dec4e5e98d2
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84da7a0e92207444d9cbfe69965e17db29008f27
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e06bbb9ade7cdf28d4a3b5b14e5812881c8df85

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