CVE-2026-63875

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-63875

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

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

arm64: tlb: Flush walk cache when unsharing PMD tables

When huge_pmd_unshare() is called to unshare a PMD table, the

tlb_unshare_pmd_ptdesc() function sets tlb->unshared_tables=true

but the aarch64 tlb_flush() only checked tlb->freed_tables to

determine whether to use TLBF_NONE (vae1is, invalidates walk

cache) or TLBF_NOWALKCACHE (vale1is, leaf-only).

This caused the stale PMD page table entry to remain in the walk cache

after unshare, potentially leading to incorrect page table walks.

Fix by including unshared_tables in the check, so that when

unsharing tables, TLBF_NONE is used and the walk cache is properly

invalidated.

Here is the detailed distinction between vae1is and vale1is:

| Instruction Combination | Actual Invalidation Scope |

| ------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------|

| `VAE1IS` + TTL=`0` | All entries at all levels (full invalidation) |

| `VAE1IS` + TTL=`2` (L2) | Non-leaf at Level 0/1 + leaf at Level 2 |

| `VALE1IS` + TTL=`0` | Leaf entries at all levels (non-leaf not cleared) |

| `VALE1IS` + TTL=`2` (L2) | Leaf entry at Level 2 only | (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References