CVE-2026-89923

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89923
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89923.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-89923
Downstream
Published
2026-09-16T10:32:16Z
Modified
2026-09-18T03:48:34Z
Summary
KVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy
Details

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

KVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy

kvm_s390_clear_bp_data() is only called from kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_guest_debug(), i.e. when user space changes or disables debugging. A vCPU that is destroyed while hardware breakpoints are still armed - the normal case when the VMM just exits or crashes - leaks hw_bp_info, hw_wp_info and all old_data buffers, since generic KVM frees the vCPU right after kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy().

That is bounded by MAX_BP_COUNT entries, so roughly 8 KiB per vCPU, but it is unbounded over VM lifetimes. The allocations are GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, so the charge also outlives the exiting process and pins dying memcgs.

Fix by clearing the debug data on vCPU destruction. Calling it unconditionally is fine: struct kvm_vcpu is zero allocated, so for a vCPU that never enabled debugging the counters are 0 and the pointers NULL.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89923.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
27291e2165b6de70c476b7b675308113edd69a60
Fixed
053f2068cf9b0654b651fed5ad7649d3deb982bf
Fixed
6c996b12bbe4a6023076e8eee3cfaf2cc99db76c
Fixed
d6280fc540d8f4653c9b54a78cb747e128070f5e
Fixed
544a5a665019cef394ce8bda97fa7a2cab253781
Fixed
9a32c4c6a6c23b7f5bf765eb5b83ba7f64a8ec63
Fixed
b5acacfdb8966abff91836c1c5bd7da59d8a526e
Fixed
e4d8b7f176b976474e0800ba71ee2dfa3ce263c9
Fixed
e7f698b09d4a7c36b299acf680fc50fe868e2bcd

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89923.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
3.16.0
Fixed
5.10.270
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.11.0
Fixed
5.15.221
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.188
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.157
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.110
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.18.51
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.2.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89923.json"