CVE-2026-98470: KVM: arm64: Don't WARN on an unknown VM ioctl in protected mode

Published Oct 18, 2026
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Updated

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

KVM: arm64: Don't WARN on an unknown VM ioctl in protected mode

kvmpkvmioctlallowed() WARNs when kvmgetcapforkvmioctl() doesn't find the ioctl number in vmioctlcaps[], and kvmarchvmioctl() calls it for every number the generic code doesn't handle, so ioctl(vmfd, 0xdeadbeef) from userspace taints a pKVM host and panics it under paniconwarn. The lookup is fed userspace input: return false, and userspace gets the -EINVAL kvmarchvmioctl() returns for that number on a host without pKVM.

Affected Software

1 affected component
Linux Linux kernel

Event History

Oct 18, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·03:15 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·03:15 PM
Description
Data Sourced
via NVD·04:16 PM
Description

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