CVE-2026-89920

KVM: s390: Fix memory corruption by not reinjecting CK machine checks

CVE-2026-89920 is fixed in linux on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89920, released September 23, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.8
Important
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0018
7th percentile

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 forwarding such machine checks into the guest. This also simplifies the machine check reinjection and avoids kfree of a stack variable as reported by sashiko. There might be still machine checks that have the ck bit set with another bit (like instruction damage), mask out the CK bit in s390_backup_mcck_info(), like the CP and ED bits already are.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.115-2 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89920 Sep 23, 2026
linux · Debian 14 7.2.6-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-89920 Sep 23, 2026

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