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Advisory severityMedium5.5Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-64106] Reject restored DTE with out-of-range num_eventid_bits

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-64106 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Reject restored DTE with out-of-range num_eventid_bits Userspace can restore an ITS Device Table Entry whose Size field encodes more EventID bits than the virtual ITS supports.

The live MAPD path rejects that state, but vgic_its_restore_dte() accepts it and stores the out-of-range value in dev->num_eventid_bits. Reject restored DTEs with num_eventid_bits > VITS_TYPER_IDBITS before allocating the device.

This mirrors the MAPD check and prevents the restored state from reaching vgic_its_restore_itt(), where the unchecked value can be converted into an oversized scan_its_table() range. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for arm64 architecture, specifically within the virtual Generic Interrupt Controller (vgic-its) module.

This unchecked value can lead to an oversized scan of the ITS table, potentially causing system instability or a denial of service. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

Weakness: CWE-805. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.

Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel-rt.

Affected versions

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Fixed versions

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Mitigation

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Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 29 days ago·verify at source

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