CVE-2026-90240 Affecting kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt package, versions <1-150700.1.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-KERNELLIVEPATCH640150700778RT-20936188
  • published14 Oct 2026
  • disclosed13 Oct 2026

Introduced: 13 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-90240  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt to version 1-150700.1.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt package and not the kernel-livepatch-6_4_0-150700_7_78-rt package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1