# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89513"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-11T19:43:57.960Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:48:04.610Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-89513"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89513.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89513"
title: "RISC-V: KVM: Fix PMU event info array size overflow"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRISC-V: KVM: Fix PMU event info array size overflow\n\nSBI PMU EVENT_GET_INFO stores guest-controlled num_events * sizeof(*einfo)\nin a 32-bit integer. On RV64, num_events = 0x10000001 makes 0x100000010\ntruncate to 16. KVM then allocates one entry but loops over the original\nnum_events, causing out-of-bounds reads and writes. A nested guest\ntriggered:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0xa4/0x142\nRead of size 4 at addr ff600000074d46b0 by task init/1\nCall Trace:\n[\u003cffffffff8006471c\u003e] kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0xa4/0x142\n[\u003cffffffff800690c0\u003e] kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler+0xca/0x268\n[\u003cffffffff8006779e\u003e] kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall+0xec/0x1e6\n[\u003cffffffff8006008c\u003e] kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit+0x48c/0x540\n[\u003cffffffff8005ea0a\u003e] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x37e/0xc80\nAllocated by task 1:\n __kmalloc_noprof+0x19e/0x4b0\n kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0x72/0x142\n kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler+0xca/0x268\n kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall+0xec/0x1e6\n kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit+0x48c/0x540\n kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x37e/0xc80\nThe buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of\n allocated 16-byte region [ff600000074d46a0, ff600000074d46b0)\n\nStore the shared-memory size in size_t and reject multiplication overflow.\nAllocate the guest-driven array with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so it is charged\nto kmemcg, and use __GFP_NOWARN to suppress allocation failure warnings.\nUse kvcalloc() to allow vmalloc fallback and an unsigned long loop index\nto match num_events."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"e309fd113b9f6c34672a487be08fecb7e12e7e29","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ddbd71a3780942918a7d116d666313e5b3304d73"},{"version":"e309fd113b9f6c34672a487be08fecb7e12e7e29","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82088f88c96b99c27a974d09b02c2b133262fadf"},{"version":"e309fd113b9f6c34672a487be08fecb7e12e7e29","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"735bc20c24187ca419c9d5e63860a54b91be34bd"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.18.57","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.4","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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