CVE-2026-89924

KVM: s390: Fix old_data leak in guest debug error path

N/A
Published: September 16, 2026 at 10:32 AM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 09:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: Fix old_data leak in guest debug error path __import_wp_info() allocates a per-watchpoint old_data buffer to back up the original guest memory contents. If a later watchpoint of the same KVM_SET_GUEST_DEBUG request fails to import, kvm_s390_import_bp_data() jumps to the error label, which frees the wp_info array but not the old_data buffers of the entries that were imported successfully. Up to MAX_BP_COUNT - 1 buffers of up to MAX_WP_SIZE bytes are leaked per failed request, and the request can be repeated. Create error handling for cleaning up all created old_data memory areas.

Affected

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

27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a603.16
Vendor states this is fixed in 124c81ee610e1fbdd93d4399f88d9e28ba97a941 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 4048d0a252163084794be3e37995b872c5178913 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 46cb8a273e2f853f89a78b59dbdff8787b6e1c86 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5fbf319137735252eefa507193c9a619af5b7457 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in aa9c8e8baf1e765fa65b93212522c636f25d846f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in c85d402553987777cc4742751437ea5dcbf98a7b (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in e5ae7816e5ad145618f7fd568a0e8a94dd9f81f4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in f55e4d415d95342d5753e528e05a1e8623992c3f (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.10.270 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.15.221 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.188 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.110 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.51 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.157 (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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