CVE-2026-98440

CVE-2026-98440

published October 18, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction

We free the shadow S2 structures from kvm_arch_flush_shadow_all(), which

is a Bad Idea(tm). Freeing the page tables is fair game (this is what

this callback is for), but freeing the container that could still be

referenced by another part of the system is not great.

Instead, grow separate destructors that gets called when we tear the VM

down for good. From there, we can nuke both the individual MMUs as well

as the global array that points to them, safe in the knowledge that the

vcpus themselves have been destroyed already.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00168 · 5.7th percentile
Published
2026-10-18T20:16Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 OCT 03:34Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 18 OCT 15:14Z
    KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction
    cvelistv5
  • 18 OCT 15:14Z
    KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction
    cvelistv5