GHSA-m978-f9gm-gj2j · Severity: medium — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix pin leak and...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix pin leak and publication ordering in __pkvm_init_vcpu() Two bugs exist in the vCPU initialisation path: 1. If a check fails after hyp_pin_shared_mem() succeeds, the cleanup path jumps to 'unlock' without calling unpin_host_vcpu() or unpin_host_sve_state(), permanently leaking pin references on the host vCPU and SVE state pages. Extract a register_hyp_vcpu() helper that performs the checks and the store. When register_hyp_vcpu() returns an error, call unpin_host_vcpu() and unpin_host_sve_state() inline before falling through to the existing 'unlock' label. 2. register_hyp_vcpu() publishes the new vCPU pointer into 'hyp_vm->vcpus[]' with a bare store, allowing a concurrent caller of pkvm_load_hyp_vcpu() to observe a partially initialised vCPU object. Ensure the store uses smp_store_release() and the load uses smp_load_acquire(). While 'vm_table_lock' currently serialises the store and the load, these barriers ensure the reader sees the fully initialised 'hyp_vcpu' object even if there were a lockless path or if the lock's own ordering guarantees were insufficient for nested object initialization.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-46147 is rated Low Risk (23/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.13%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.02% | 0.13% | +0.11% |
| 2 | 2026-05-28 | — | 0.02% | — |
Full EPSS history (2 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 5.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
GHSA-m978-f9gm-gj2j · Severity: medium — In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix pin leak and...
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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debian
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not yet assigned | CVE-2026-46147 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (linux), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): open 3, resolved 2. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-46147 |
redhat
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— | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46147 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2026-46147 severity moderate: SUSE including 4 source package names (kernel-devel-7.0.11-1.1, kernel-macros-7.0.11-1.1, kernel-source-7.0.11-1.1, kernel-source-vanilla-7.0.11-1.1), 4 product×package rows across 1 product lines (openSUSE Tumbleweed): Fixed 4. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46147/ |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2026-46147 medium priority: Ubuntu including 158 source packages (linux, linux-allwinner-5.19, …), 1422 status rows across 9 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, resolute, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 1024, needed 225, ignored 173. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-46147 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | < 6.18.30 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | >= 6.19, < 7.0.7 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.1 | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.1:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* |