CVE-2026-89920

KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: September 16, 2026 at 10:32 AM UTC
Updated: October 21, 2026 at 01:20 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks Channel-subsystem damage machine checks are for the host channel subsystem. The guest channel subsystem is emulated in the userspace VMM. There is no point in forwarding such machine checks into the guest. This also simplifies the machine check reinjection and avoids kfree of a stack variable as reported by sashiko. There might be still machine checks that have the ck bit set with another bit (like instruction damage), mask out the CK bit in s390_backup_mcck_info(), like the CP and ED bits already are.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

4.134d62fcc0b692e3b4058d7d138114c27cd8b011f7
Vendor states this is fixed in 546dde823a36d7283dcf46127c2f3d093443860f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6ee52d3af2a1bf70349cf3f860933c8d221e229a (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7077ec953996acc04b49d1dfc43df1c1a2a74395 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4.13 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.114 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.51 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.160 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.2.5 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.3-rc1 (unaffected)

Remediation

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No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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