Medium [CVE-2026-72325] Avoid enabling BRS from the SVM reload path
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-72325 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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Summary
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's performance monitoring unit (PMU) for AMD processors. When Secure Virtual Machine (SVM) is toggled on a CPU with active Last Branch Record (LBR) events, the system incorrectly attempts to enable Branch Sampling (BRS) on hardware that does not support it.
This misconfiguration leads to a General Protection Fault, which can cause the system to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS). 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-358. 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-64k-core; Red Hat package: kernel-64k-debug-core; Red Hat package: kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched; Red Hat package: kernel-64k-debug-modules-core; and 19 more.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel-64k-debug-modules-extra; Red Hat package: kernel-64k-devel-matched; Red Hat package: kernel-64k-modules-core; Red Hat package: kernel-64k-modules-extra; and 15 more.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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