CVE-2026-102916 (GCVE-0-2026-102916)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-09 14:12
Modified
2026-10-09 21:07
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-617 - Reachable Assertion
Summary
A reachable assertion in the illumos bhyve instruction emulator allows a guest to panic the host. When emulating a REP-prefixed MOVS or STOS instruction that accesses guest MMIO, vie_emulate_movs() and vie_emulate_stos() in usr/src/uts/intel/io/vmm/vmm_instruction_emul.c do not clear the VIES_REPEAT status flag on the final iteration. For MMIO regions emulated in the kernel (the local APIC, I/O APIC and HPET), the stale flag causes a VERIFY assertion in vie_advance_pc() to fail, and the host panics. A privileged user within a guest VM can issue a REP MOVS or REP STOS instruction against the local APIC page to cause a denial of service of the host and every other guest running on it. The flaw has existed since 2020 (illumos-gate commit e0c0d44e), and affects any illumos distribution prior to illumos-gate commit 696ecf8d.
References
Impacted products
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Version: e0c0d44e917080841514d0dd031a696c74e8c435 |
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