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Linux Kernel EUVDEUVD-2026-57923

| CVE-2026-68454 HIGH
2026-08-13 Linux GHSA-4h5w-742q-hw8j
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: Linux
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Vendor (Linux) PRIMARY
8.8 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
vuln.today AI
8.8 HIGH

Guest VM user locally triggers IRQ registration without AISB; scope change to host hypervisor via corrupted GAITE justifies S:C and high CIA impact.

3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.0 AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
SUSE
7.5 HIGH
AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
Red Hat
5.5 MEDIUM
qualitative

Primary rating from Vendor (Linux).

CVSS VectorVendor: Linux

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Lifecycle Timeline

5
Analysis Generated
Aug 14, 2026 - 02:40 vuln.today
CVSS changed
Aug 13, 2026 - 23:37 NVD
8.8 (HIGH)
Patch available
Aug 13, 2026 - 15:02 EUVD
CVE Published
Aug 13, 2026 - 13:59 cve.org
UNKNOWN (no severity yet)
CVE Published
Aug 13, 2026 - 13:59 cve.org
HIGH 8.8

DescriptionCVE.org

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

KVM: s390: pci: Fix handling of AIF enable without AISB

When a guest seeks to register IRQs without a summary bit specified, ensure that the associated GAITE then stores 0 for the guest AISB location instead of virt_to_phys(page_address(NULL)).

AnalysisAI

KVM on s390 (IBM Z mainframe) exposes a hypervisor boundary-crossing flaw in its PCI Adapter Interrupt Forwarding (AIF) subsystem, where a guest VM registering IRQs without an Adapter Interrupt Summary Bit (AISB) causes the kernel to write virt_to_phys(page_address(NULL)) - a non-zero, incorrect physical address - into the Guest Adapter Interrupt Table Entry (GAITE) rather than the correct zero sentinel. The CVSS scope change (S:C) indicates this poisoned GAITE entry can be used to cross the guest/host trust boundary, enabling potential host memory disclosure, corruption, or destabilization from a low-privileged guest context. No public exploit code and no CISA KEV listing exist at time of analysis; patches have been issued across multiple Linux stable kernel branches.

Technical ContextAI

The vulnerability is in the Linux kernel's KVM subsystem for s390 (IBM Z) architecture, specifically the PCI Adapter Interrupt Forwarding (AIF) path in arch/s390/kvm/pci.c. AIF is an IBM Z hardware mechanism allowing guest VMs to receive PCI adapter interrupts directly, bypassing the hypervisor for performance. The Guest Adapter Interrupt Table Entry (GAITE) stores the physical address of the guest's Adapter Interrupt Summary Bit (AISB) page, which the hardware uses to signal pending interrupts. The defect: when a guest registers IRQs via the AIF interface without specifying an AISB, the code path should store 0 in the GAITE's AISB address field to indicate the feature is unused. Instead, it evaluates virt_to_phys(page_address(NULL)), which computes the physical address mapped from the NULL virtual address - on s390, this may yield a non-zero physical address corresponding to the zero page, producing an invalid, hardware-consumed GAITE entry that points into real host physical memory. The CPE string cpe:2.3:a:linux:linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* applies scoped to s390 KVM with CONFIG_KVM and PCI/AIF support. No CWE is formally assigned by NVD, but the root cause class is closest to CWE-824 (Access of Uninitialized Pointer) or CWE-119 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer), arising from incorrect null handling in a physical address computation.

RemediationAI

The primary remediation is upgrading the Linux kernel to a patched stable release: 6.1.178, 6.6.145, 6.12.97, 6.18.40, 7.1.5, or 7.2-rc4, depending on the deployed branch. Administrators should apply the patch commit corresponding to their kernel version from the kernel stable git repository links referenced above and in the NVD advisory at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68454. As a compensating control where immediate patching is operationally infeasible, disabling PCI Adapter Interrupt Forwarding (AIF) for guest VMs removes the vulnerable code path entirely; the trade-off is a reduction in PCI interrupt performance for workloads that rely on direct AIF delivery, which may be significant for latency-sensitive applications. Restricting untrusted or multi-tenant guest workloads from running on unpatched s390 KVM hosts with PCI/AIF passthrough is advisable in the interim. There is no patch-free workaround that fully eliminates the guest-to-host escalation risk without functional impact to AIF-dependent guest applications.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Important
Product Status
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0 Affected

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