# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23085"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-02-04T16:08:09.368Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T18:25:29.916Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23085"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23085.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23085"
title: "irqchip/gic-v3-its: Avoid truncating memory addresses"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nirqchip/gic-v3-its: Avoid truncating memory addresses\n\nOn 32-bit machines with CONFIG_ARM_LPAE, it is possible for lowmem\nallocations to be backed by addresses physical memory above the 32-bit\naddress limit, as found while experimenting with larger VMSPLIT\nconfigurations.\n\nThis caused the qemu virt model to crash in the GICv3 driver, which\nallocates the 'itt' object using GFP_KERNEL. Since all memory below\nthe 4GB physical address limit is in ZONE_DMA in this configuration,\nkmalloc() defaults to higher addresses for ZONE_NORMAL, and the\nITS driver stores the physical address in a 32-bit 'unsigned long'\nvariable.\n\nChange the itt_addr variable to the correct phys_addr_t type instead,\nalong with all other variables in this driver that hold a physical\naddress.\n\nThe gicv5 driver correctly uses u64 variables, while all other irqchip\ndrivers don't call virt_to_phys or similar interfaces. It's expected that\nother device drivers have similar issues, but fixing this one is\nsufficient for booting a virtio based guest."
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