# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98283"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:44.593Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:16:54.747Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98283"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98283.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98283"
title: "KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: fix use-after-free in kvmhv_emulate_tlbie_all_lpid()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: PPC: Book3S HV: fix use-after-free in kvmhv_emulate_tlbie_all_lpid()\n\nkvmhv_emulate_tlbie_all_lpid() iterates the nested-guest IDR and drops\nmmu_lock before calling kvmhv_emulate_tlbie_lpid(), but does not hold a\nreference on the kvm_nested_guest pointer obtained from the IDR.  A\nconcurrent vCPU issuing a single-LPID tlbie (is=2, ric=2) can race\nthrough kvmhv_flush_nested() -\u003e kvmhv_remove_nested() -\u003e idr_remove /\n--refcnt -\u003e kvmhv_release_nested() -\u003e kfree(gp) in that window, leaving\nthe iterating vCPU with a dangling pointer.  The subsequent\nmutex_lock(&gp-\u003etlb_lock) and accesses to gp-\u003eshadow_pgtable,\ngp-\u003eshadow_lpid and gp-\u003el1_host all touch freed memory.  The free path\nis fully L1-controlled.\n\nFix this by incrementing gp-\u003erefcnt inside the loop before dropping\nmmu_lock, mirroring what kvmhv_get_nested() does, and releasing the\nreference with kvmhv_put_nested() after the per-guest work completes.\nThis is the same get/put discipline already used at every other\ncall site that drops mmu_lock while holding a nested-guest pointer."
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