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CVE-2026-98472

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Free have_run_cpus during VM destruction even if VM is no longer SEV Unconditionally free SEV's "have run CPUs" cpumask in the VM destroy path, i.e. even for what appear to be non-SEV VMs, as an SEV VM becomes a non-SEV VM if its state is intra-host migrated. Alternatively, the mask could be freed in sev_migrate_from() when "converting" the source VM, but that gets annoying because ideally KVM would nullify the mask to guard against UAF, and nullifying the mask would need be conditioned on CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y. Freeing the mask during sev_migrate_from() is also not robust against other KVM bugs, though that's kind of a moot point since any such bugs would show up even if sev->active is never set. I.e. KVM must get that side of things correct. But, that's not a great reason to add more code just to make things marginally less robust.

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Last source
FIRST EPSS
Nvd fetched at
2026-10-20T21:14:08.448323+00:00
Epss score
0.00166
Cve id
CVE-2026-98472
First seen by Signal
2026-10-18T18:05:58+00:00
Retrieved at
2026-10-21T01:24:51+00:00
Published at
2026-10-18T16:16:57.697
Last modified
2026-10-19T10:18:57.743
Epss percentile
0.05482

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