CVE-2026-64172

HIGH
7.1CVSS v3
CVSS v2
0.14% EPSS (exploit probability)
CWE

Description

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

KVM: SVM: Disable AVIC IPI virtualization on Hygon Family 18h (erratum #1235)

Hygon Family 18h CPUs are derived from AMD Family 17h (Zen1) silicon and
share the same erratum #1235: hardware may read a stale IsRunning=1 bit
during ICR write emulation and silently fail to generate an
AVIC_IPI_FAILURE_TARGET_NOT_RUNNING VM-Exit on the sending vCPU.

The absence of the VM-Exit causes KVM to miss the required wakeup of
blocking target vCPUs, leading to hung vCPUs and unbounded delays in
guest execution.

Extend the existing AMD Family 17h erratum #1235 workaround to also cover
Hygon Family 18h. With IPI virtualization disabled, KVM never sets
IsRunning=1 in the Physical ID table, so every non-self IPI generates a
VM-Exit and is correctly emulated.

CVSS v3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected routers (0)

No routers currently mapped to this CVE in our database.

External references