# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-89923"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-16T10:32:16.765Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:54:58.219Z"
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-2026-89923"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-89923.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89923"
title: "KVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: s390: Free guest debug data on vcpu destroy\n\nkvm_s390_clear_bp_data() is only called from\nkvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_set_guest_debug(), i.e. when user space changes or\ndisables debugging. A vCPU that is destroyed while hardware breakpoints\nare still armed - the normal case when the VMM just exits or crashes -\nleaks hw_bp_info, hw_wp_info and all old_data buffers, since generic KVM\nfrees the vCPU right after kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy().\n\nThat is bounded by MAX_BP_COUNT entries, so roughly 8 KiB per vCPU, but\nit is unbounded over VM lifetimes. The allocations are\nGFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT, so the charge also outlives the exiting process and\npins dying memcgs.\n\nFix by clearing the debug data on vCPU destruction. Calling it\nunconditionally is fine: struct kvm_vcpu is zero allocated, so for a vCPU\nthat never enabled debugging the counters are 0 and the pointers NULL."
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