CVE-2026-89920

CVE-2026-89920 affects the Linux kernel's KVM s390 subsystem. The vulnerability arises when channel-subsystem damage (CK) machine checks are unnecessarily reinjected into a guest VM, even though the guest channel subsystem is emulated in the userspace VMM. This reinjection causes a kfree of a sta...

CVE-2026-89920 KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks

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...