Threats tagged 'vgic-its'

CVE-2026-46316 is a guest-to-host escape vulnerability in the vGIC-ITS emulation within KVM on ARM64 platforms. It is caused by a race condition in the vgic_its_invalidate_cache() function leading to a double-put use-after-free, which allows execution of code in the host kernel context. This flaw resides in the in-kernel KVM module, enabling successful exploitation to gain host kernel privileges. The vulnerability affects multi-tenant ARM64 cloud environments and can be chained with local privilege escalation when guest root access is unavailable. A patch fixing this vulnerability was applied in the Linux kernel at commit 13031fb6b835. Two YARA rules have been developed to detect exploitation attempts based on specific constants and behavioral patterns. There are no known exploits in the wild as of the latest information.