CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89912
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-16
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Don't dereference a NULL collection on ITT save
MAPC with V=0 drops ite->collection but leaves the ITE on the device's
ITT list, and vgic_its_save_ite() dereferences it unconditionally. A
guest that issues MAPD, MAPTI and then MAPC(V=0) therefore oopses the
host when the VMM issues KVM_DEV_ARM_ITS_SAVE_TABLES to migrate it.
That sequence is UNPREDICTABLE per the architecture, but KVM already
handles the resulting state in the translate, MOVI and DISCARD paths.
Save a zeroed entry, which vgic_its_restore_ite() reads back as
invalid. Skipping the ITE instead would leave the ITT slot holding
whatever is in guest memory, and restore rejects an entry naming a
collection the restored collection table does not have.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c3a87ad3d3935c43d465cd2465db9020f9e898f git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36df368861d2664291298feeb37dfef43fcae670 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d4c26b16a04a084fe0bde08ccdd8086570f8bbe git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c6c156d931c33b92362383cf76f6d6e1291dcbfe git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd0c3e6c03e3bb3fd7c0fa422230020674c5c25e git.kernel.org