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CVE-2026-23085

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: irqchip/gic-v3-its: Avoid truncating memory addresses On 32-bit machines with CONFIG_ARM_LPAE, it is possible for lowmem allocations to be backed by addresses physical memory above the 32-bit address limit, as found while experimenting with larger VMSPLIT configurations. This caused the qemu virt model to crash in the GICv3 driver, which allocates the 'itt' object using GFP_KERNEL. Since all memory below the 4GB physical address limit is in ZONE_DMA in this configuration, kmalloc() defaults to higher addresses for ZONE_NORMAL, and the ITS driver stores the physical address in a 32-bit 'unsigned long' variable. Change the itt_addr variable to the correct phys_addr_t type instead, along with all other variables in this driver that hold a physical address. The gicv5 driver correctly uses u64 variables, while all other irqchip drivers don't call virt_to_phys or similar interfaces. It's expected that other device drivers have similar issues, but fixing this one is sufficient for booting a virtio based guest.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 7

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-19 19:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 7

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.19:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 7