{
  "schema_version": "1.6.1",
  "id": "RPI-CVE-2026-68454",
  "modified": "2026-10-09T11:39:44Z",
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-68454"
  ],
  "published": "2026-08-13T13:58:35Z",
  "summary": "KVM: s390: pci: Fix handling of AIF enable without AISB",
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: s390: pci: Fix handling of AIF enable without AISB\n\nWhen a guest seeks to register IRQs without a summary bit specified,\nensure that the associated GAITE then stores 0 for the guest AISB\nlocation instead of virt_to_phys(page_address(NULL)).",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Raspberry Pi OS:12",
        "name": "linux"
      },
      "versions": [
        "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
      ],
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
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            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-2712",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v6",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
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            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v7l",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "linux-image-6.1.0-rpi3-rpi-v8",
            "binary_version": "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4"
          }
        ]
      },
      "database_specific": {
        "per_version": {
          "1:6.1.47-1+rpt4": {
            "linux_commit": "655fc658a15ae7a6f37103754adb39ba52a9a14e",
            "upstream_version": "6.1.47",
            "assessment": "commit ancestry (strak rule)",
            "upstream_fixed": "6.1.178",
            "compiled_filter": false
          }
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-68454"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f887df91826e72b570c5e9298e66dd929f09edde"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3ef3190e30601b2688bdc64169b938b8d7f42010"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d48b9b096d11e31690c0a4988f65f21b64c01b2a"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df72596278b0e22dac5ef2881e9221a3a2c4ed11"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/124a3769c43713a11a93a821b313e61ad5110cb8"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e3aa6da87d30a0064a17b836685cd43c90a3572"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "source": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git",
    "upstream_modified": "2026-08-17T05:24:08Z",
    "severity": {
      "source": "kernel CNA",
      "cvss_v3_score": 8.8,
      "cvss_v3_severity": "High",
      "scenario": "AV:L - The vulnerable code is reached through the KVM_S390_ZPCI_OP VM ioctl, issued by the userspace VMM on behalf of a guest executing the mpcifc \"register adapter interrupts\" instruction for an assigned zPCI device; no network path exists.\nAC:L - The guest simply registers adapter-event notification with no summary bit (sb == 0), which deterministically stores virt_to_phys(page_address(NULL)) into the GAITE; the subsequent wild access is then triggered at will by device interrupt activity or by deregistering/tearing down the VM.\nPR:L - The attacker needs access to a KVM VM file descriptor with an assigned zPCI device, i.e. control of a guest kernel or of the unprivileged QEMU process; no host root or init-namespace privilege is required.\nUI:N - The guest triggers the register/deregister sequence entirely on its own; no host administrator or other user action is needed.\nS:C - A guest action corrupts host kernel state outside the VM's security authority \u2014 the GAITE is host-owned and the resulting wild accesses occur in host kernel context, crossing the guest/hypervisor boundary.\nC:H - kvm_s390_pci_aif_disable() turns the bogus physical address into a struct page via phys_to_page() and reads folio metadata from it, an out-of-bounds vmemmap read; the resulting refcount underflow can free memory still in use, yielding a read primitive over host memory belonging to the hypervisor and other guests.\nI:H - aen_host_forward() performs set_bit_inv() on phys_to_virt(garbage) \u2014 an atomic OR write at a wild host kernel address \u2014 and unpin_user_page() decrements the refcount of a fabricated struct page, giving host memory corruption and a premature-free primitive usable for control-flow hijack.\nA:H - The wild atomic write in hard-IRQ context and the bogus struct page dereference reliably produce an addressing exception / kernel panic in the host, taking down the hypervisor and every guest on it."
    }
  }
}