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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93238"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T15:34:11.543Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:07:49.811Z"
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-2026-93238"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93238.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93238"
title: "s390/vfio-ap: fix potential use of uninitialized apm_filtered bitmap"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ns390/vfio-ap: fix potential use of uninitialized apm_filtered bitmap\n\nThe DECLARE_BITMAP(apm_filtered, AP_DEVICES) macro allocates the bitmap\non the stack without zero-initializing it.\n\nIn vfio_ap_mdev_hot_plug_cfg(), the vfio_ap_mdev_filter_matrix() function\nis only called to initialize and populate apm_filtered if either\nfilter_adapters or filter_domains is true. If the hot plug configuration\nchange only adds control domains (meaning filter_cdoms is true, but\nfilter_adapters and filter_domains are both false),\nvfio_ap_mdev_filter_matrix() is bypassed.\n\nConsequently, apm_filtered is passed to reset_queues_for_apids() with\nuninitialized stack garbage. This can cause reset_queues_for_apids() to\ninterpret arbitrary stack garbage bits as valid APIDs to reset, potentially\nperforming unintended guest hardware queue resets.\n\nFix this by zero-initializing the apm_filtered bitmap at the beginning of\nvfio_ap_mdev_hot_plug_cfg() using bitmap_zero()."
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