CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-52968

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a vulnerability in the KVM subsystem for s390 architecture causes double-scaling of pointer arithmetic when indexing the GAIT table. Functions kvm_s390_pci_aif_enable(), kvm_s390_pci_aif_disable(), and aen_host_forward() manually multiply the index by sizeof(struct zpci_gaite), leading to out-of-bounds access for aisb >= 32.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may cause out-of-bounds memory access in kernel space, potentially leading to system crash, information disclosure, or privilege escalation in KVM environments on IBM z/Architecture mainframes.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Linux kernel to a version containing the fix that removes the erroneous sizeof(struct zpci_gaite) multiplication in arch/s390/kvm/pci.c and arch/s390/kvm/pci.h.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: pci: fix GAIT table indexing due to double-scaling pointer arithmetic kvm_s390_pci_aif_enable(), kvm_s390_pci_aif_disable(), and aen_host_forward() index the GAIT by manually multiplying the index with sizeof(struct zpci_gaite). Since aift->gait is already a struct zpci_gaite pointer, this double-scales the offset, accessing element aisb*16 instead of aisb. This causes out-of-bounds accesses when aisb >= 32 (with ZPCI_NR_DEVICES=512) Fix by removing the erroneous sizeof multiplication.

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