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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03faa61eb4b9ca9aa09bd91d4c3773d8e7b1ac98 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/084ba3b99f2dfd991ce7e84fb17117319ec3cd9f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b323391560354d8c515de8658b057a1daa82adb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85215d633983233809f7d4dad163b953331b8238 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d76a7d89c12d08382b66e2f21f20d0627d14859 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2f9c751f73a2d5bb62d94ab030aec118a811f27 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e332b3b69e5b3acf07204a4b185071bab15c2b88 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 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
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03faa61eb4b9ca9aa09bd91d4c3773d8e7b1ac98 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/084ba3b99f2dfd991ce7e84fb17117319ec3cd9f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1b323391560354d8c515de8658b057a1daa82adb Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85215d633983233809f7d4dad163b953331b8238 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d76a7d89c12d08382b66e2f21f20d0627d14859 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e2f9c751f73a2d5bb62d94ab030aec118a811f27 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e332b3b69e5b3acf07204a4b185071bab15c2b88 Patch