CVE-2026-89920

CVE-2026-89920

High · published September 16, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
6.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00175 · 6.6th percentile
Published
2026-09-16T15:17Z
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 SEP 04:02Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 16 SEP 10:32Z
    KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks
    cvelistv5