iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down scalable-mode context entry (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-74439
CRITICAL 9.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.20 % · percentile 9 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down scalable-mode context entry device_pasid_table_teardown() zeroes the 128-bit scalable-mode context entry with context_clear_entry() while the Present bit is still set. This creates a window where the hardware can fetch a torn entry, with some fields already zeroed while Present is still set, leading to unpredictable behavior or spurious faults. The context-cache invalidation is issued only after the entry has been zeroed, and intel_pasid_free_table() then frees the PASID directory pages, so the IOMMU can keep walking a stale Present=1 entry that points at freed memory. While x86 provides strong write ordering, the compiler may reorder the two 64-bit writes to the entry, and the hardware fetch is not guaranteed to be atomic with respect to multiple CPU writes. Commit c1e4f1dccbe9d ("iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down context entry") fixed this exact pattern in domain_context_clear_one() and the copied-context path, but device_pasid_table_teardown() was not converted. Align it with the "Guidance to Software for Invalidations" in the VT-d spec, Section 6.5.3.3, using the same ownership handshake as the sibling fix: clear only the Present bit, flush it to the IOMMU, perform the context-cache invalidation, and only then zero the rest of the entry.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.3CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6d < e9e83bcfe37dc719182500dd823c03ab57d934f0 ; affected 81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6d < 588718101e8449605f1c7e858fecb7cfa701cdab ; affected 81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6d < 7fd4077dc92b91b1b844333c0a06bb9e286db10a ; affected 81e921fd321614c2ad8ac333b041aae1da7a1c6d < f46452c3df7a8d8a5addc0926e76ef19ea7da0a0 ; affected 333fe86968482ca701c609af590003bcea450e8f ; affected 6.8.2 < 6.9
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.9 ; unaffected 0 < 6.9 ; unaffected 6.12.97 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.40 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.5 ≤ 7.1.* ; unaffected 7.2 ≤ *

Sources

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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
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CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
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