CVE-2026-23215

MEDIUM EPSS 1.7%
Published Feb 18, 20264mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
5.5 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Feb 18, 2026 4mo ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/vmware: Fix hypercall clobbers Fedora QA reported the following panic: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000040003e54 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20251119-3.fc43 11/19/2025 RIP: 0010:vmware_hypercall4.constprop.0+0x52/0x90 .. Call Trace: vmmouse_report_events+0x13e/0x1b0 psmouse_handle_byte+0x15/0x60 ps2_interrupt+0x8a/0xd0 ... because the QEMU VMware mouse emulation is buggy, and clears the top 32 bits of %rdi that the kernel kept a pointer in. The QEMU vmmouse driver saves and restores the register state in a "uint32_t data[6];" and as a result restores the state with the high bits all cleared. RDI originally contained the value of a valid kernel stack address (0xff5eeb3240003e54). After the vmware hypercall it now contains 0x40003e54, and we get a page fault as a result when it is dereferenced. The proper fix would be in QEMU, but this works around the issue in the kernel to keep old setups working, when old kernels had not happened to keep any state in %rdi over the hypercall. In theory this same issue exists for all the hypercalls in the vmmouse driver; in practice it has only been seen with vmware_hypercall3() and vmware_hypercall4(). For now, just mark RDI/RSI as clobbered for those two calls. This should have a minimal effect on code generation overall as it should be rare for the compiler to want to make RDI/RSI live across hypercalls.

CVSS Details

Base Score
5.5
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
3.6
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity None
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
1.7% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
Patch Available

Affected Products 10

VendorProductVersionRange
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.11  –  <6.12.70
linuxlinux_kernel*≥6.13  –  <6.18.10
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any
linuxlinux_kernel6.19any

References 3

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2687c848e57820651b9f69d30c4710f4219f7dbf
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f467a92df61eb516a4ec36ee16234dd4e5ccf00
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/feb603a69f830acb58f78d604f0c29e63cd38f87
    Patch

Remediation

  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2687c848e57820651b9f69d30c4710f4219f7dbf
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2f467a92df61eb516a4ec36ee16234dd4e5ccf00
    Patch
  • git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/feb603a69f830acb58f78d604f0c29e63cd38f87
    Patch