CVE-2026-89912

high

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/c6c156d931c33b92362383cf76f6d6e1291dcbfe

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d4c26b16a04a084fe0bde08ccdd8086570f8bbe

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/36df368861d2664291298feeb37dfef43fcae670

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-16

Updated: 2026-09-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00174