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High 8.8Published Sep 17, 2026

CVE-2026-90240iommu/vt-d: Flush context cache with correct SID when tearing down aliases

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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
8.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
Not given
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Linux
NVD analysis
Received
Record last updated
Sep 18, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Linux Linux
linux:linux (from the name)
from f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 before a803141597d61dc0511f7cd849625e17d042ca8a; from f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 before 5baddf100b3be730912485648cbaae5e3a251923; from f90584f4beb84211c4d21b319cc13f391fe9f3c2 before c54e4ae971b98e8d650400137d332cee56c03f55
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