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CVE record · CVE-2026-98440

KVM: arm64: nv: Delay freeing of shadow S2 structures until VM destruction

CVSS 7.0 HighEPSS 0.0012 · 1st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Linux) at 18 Oct 2026, 15:14 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux
  • affected 4f128f8e1aaac189f83d0f828bcdb2986d8d2e51 to before 876049f026b4dfaca0cc78ec81be0e639ca8525d git
  • affected 4f128f8e1aaac189f83d0f828bcdb2986d8d2e51 to before 22e82acec93a681071ed36f70eabe2d0c4e0bebd git
  • affected 4f128f8e1aaac189f83d0f828bcdb2986d8d2e51 to before 5bf1c9175e657b3c2dc1cf77403031ac7aadcf66 git
  • affected 4f128f8e1aaac189f83d0f828bcdb2986d8d2e51 to before e5843f4effaa2ffac3e789ecd4456403564961d4 git
Other versions: unaffected
Linux Linux
  • affected 6.11
  • unaffected before 6.11 semver
  • unaffected 6.12.113 to 6.12.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 6.18.56 to 6.18.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.2.9 to 7.2.*, inclusive semver
  • unaffected 7.3 to *, inclusive original_commit_for_fix
Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-98440
CNA
Linux
Tags
Published
18 Oct 2026
Updated
24 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.0 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (Linux)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0012, the 1st percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 18 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.