CVE-2026-98469 PUBLISHED

KVM: arm64: Fix AArch32 DBGBXVR<n> handling

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 18.10.2026 Updated: 18.10.2026

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

KVM: arm64: Fix AArch32 DBGBXVR<n> handling

The consolidation of the breakpoint and watchpoint register accessors switched DBGBXVR<n> from trap_bvr() to trap_dbg_wb_reg(). The latter selects backing storage with demux_wb_reg(), which only handles Op2 values 4 through 7. Since DBGBXVR<n> uses Op2 1, an AArch32 guest access hits KVM_BUG_ON() and marks the VM dead.

DBGBXVR<n> aliases DBGBVR<n>_EL1[63:32], and its AA32(HI) descriptor already selects the upper half. Map Op2 1 to dbg_bvr[] alongside Op2 4, restoring the pre-regression behavior.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 3ce9f3357e9e099f02feaa002769eb99ef1138cd to 8530a05b304d312fe7dfbc5df7d3e87cc31b256a (excl.)
  • affected from 3ce9f3357e9e099f02feaa002769eb99ef1138cd to af6813d16ace2765011ca1c567be86ade1d1ee8e (excl.)
  • affected from 3ce9f3357e9e099f02feaa002769eb99ef1138cd to 6b1bca1b1ab77f60a62087337bfe6e2f0efb9e6d (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 6.14 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 6.14 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.55 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.9 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc5 to * (incl.)

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