CVE-2026-80684 (GCVE-0-2026-80684)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-28 06:52
Modified
2026-08-29 06:22
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: s390: pci: Fix NULL dereference on AIBV allocation failure
The airq_iv_create() can return NULL on failure, but the return value was
never checked. If it fails, zdev->aibv will be NULL and fail when
dereferenced in kvm_zpci_set_airq(). Add a NULL check and free the
previously allocated AISB bit and zdev->aisb on failure.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 3c5a1b6f0a18520a0edd0600fef6f1a8553b8fdc Version: 3c5a1b6f0a18520a0edd0600fef6f1a8553b8fdc Version: 3c5a1b6f0a18520a0edd0600fef6f1a8553b8fdc Version: 3c5a1b6f0a18520a0edd0600fef6f1a8553b8fdc Version: 3c5a1b6f0a18520a0edd0600fef6f1a8553b8fdc Version: 3c5a1b6f0a18520a0edd0600fef6f1a8553b8fdc |
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