CVE-2026-90240

8.8 HIGH

Published 2026-09-17 · Updated 2026-09-18

AI risk analysis

Summary: This flaw allows stale context cache entries to persist, potentially leading to the IOMMU walking freed memory, which could result in data corruption or privilege escalation.
Exploitability: Exploitation requires access to a DMA alias and knowledge of the device's RID. It is moderately difficult to exploit.
Blast radius: If exploited, the impact could be severe, including data corruption or privilege escalation, affecting the system's integrity and security.
Detection: No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation: Upgrade to the Linux kernel version 5.19.0 or later.

kerneliommucacheteardown

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NVD description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Flush context cache with correct SID when tearing down aliases domain_context_clear_one() and device_pasid_table_teardown() are both invoked once per DMA alias of a device. Each function locates the context entry using the bus/devfn pair provided by the pci_for_each_dma_alias() callback, then calls intel_context_flush_no_pasid(), which constructs a device-selective context-cache invalidation from info->bus and info->devfn (that is, always the requester ID of the device itself). As a result, for every alias other than the device’s own RID, the context entry that was just cleared in memory is never invalidated in the context cache. Hardware may continue using that stale cached entry. In the scalable-mode teardown path, intel_pasid_free_table() can then free the PASID directory still referenced by that stale entry, allowing the IOMMU to walk freed memory. Fix this by passing the source ID of the entry being torn down to intel_context_flush_no_pasid(), instead of deriving it from @info.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

All references

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