Linux Kernel KVM hypervisor Vulnerability Rated 8.8 CVSS

Status: UPDATED  |  Advisory ID: CVE-2026-89513

Key Details

Affected Products, Subsystems & Sectors

What to Know

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RISC-V: KVM: Fix PMU event info array size overflow

SBI PMU EVENT_GET_INFO stores guest-controlled num_events * sizeof(*einfo)

in a 32-bit integer. On RV64, num_events = 0x10000001 makes 0x100000010

truncate to 16. KVM then allocates one entry but loops over the original

num_events, causing out-of-bounds reads and writes. A nested guest

triggered:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0xa4/0x142

Read of size 4 at addr ff600000074d46b0 by task init/1

Call Trace:

[<ffffffff8006471c>] kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0xa4/0x142

[<ffffffff800690c0>] kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler+0xca/0x268

[<ffffffff8006779e>] kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall+0xec/0x1e6

[<ffffffff8006008c>] kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit+0x48c/0x540

[<ffffffff8005ea0a>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x37e/0xc80

Allocated by task 1:

__kmalloc_noprof+0x19e/0x4b0

kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0x72/0x142

kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler+0xca/0x268

kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall+0xec/0x1e6

kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit+0x48c/0x540

kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x37e/0xc80

The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of

allocated 16-byte region [ff600000074d46a0, ff600000074d46b0)

Store the shared-memory size in size_t and reject multiplication overflow.

Allocate the guest-driven array with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so it is charged

to kmemcg, and use __GFP_NOWARN to suppress allocation failure warnings.

Use kvcalloc() to allow vmalloc fallback and an unsigned long loop index

to match num_events. (NVD)

What to Do

Monitor Linux's web page for any future patch releases.

References