CVE-2026-98638

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Validate the SVE vector length in pkvm_vcpu_init_sve() pkvm_vcpu_init_sve() clamps only the upper bound of the host-provided sve_max_vl, so an invalid vector length reaches sve_state_size_from_vl() and the WARN_ON() there, which is fatal at EL2. The existing !sve_state_size test rejects such a length, but only after the macro has run. Check sve_vl_valid() before deriving the state size. A valid length cannot yield a zero size, so the !sve_state_size test goes with it.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/faf66e55e87498ab4bf88cdf9a629e61b3f2d3bc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bae3e4493046de4fefa15f809d9b8dc114e84a3d

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a2eb10795a1e495aebc7f829ccecb72c05b4fd9

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-103552

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-18

Updated: 2026-10-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00166