CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-98440
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-10-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction
We free the shadow S2 structures from kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(), which
is a Bad Idea(tm). Freeing the page tables is fair game (this is what
this callback is for), but freeing the container that could still be
referenced by another part of the system is not great.
Instead, grow separate destructors that gets called when we tear the VM
down for good. From there, we can nuke both the individual MMUs as well
as the global array that points to them, safe in the knowledge that the
vcpus themselves have been destroyed already.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22e82acec93a681071ed36f70eabe2d0c4e0bebd git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5bf1c9175e657b3c2dc1cf77403031ac7aadcf66 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/876049f026b4dfaca0cc78ec81be0e639ca8525d git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5843f4effaa2ffac3e789ecd4456403564961d4 git.kernel.org