CVE-2026-98638

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Validate the SVE vector length in pkvm_vcpu_init_sve() pkvm_vcpu_init_sve() clamps only the upper bound of the host-provided sve_max_vl, so an invalid vector length reaches sve_state_size_from_vl() and the WARN_ON() there, which is fatal at EL2. The existing !sve_state_size test rejects such a length, but only after the macro has run. Check sve_vl_valid() before deriving the state size. A valid length cannot yield a zero size, so the !sve_state_size test goes with it.

EPSS

0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 5% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

Published

2026-10-18

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2a2eb10795a1e495aebc7f829ccecb72c05b4fd9
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bae3e4493046de4fefa15f809d9b8dc114e84a3d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/faf66e55e87498ab4bf88cdf9a629e61b3f2d3bc

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