# 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-2026-98546"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:18:14.808Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:21:29.442Z"
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-2026-98546"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98546.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98546"
title: "arm64/boot: Disable trapping of PMZR_EL0 writes to EL2"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64/boot: Disable trapping of PMZR_EL0 writes to EL2\n\n__init_el2_fgt2() writes one mask to both HDFGRTR2_EL2 and HDFGWTR2_EL2.\nPMZR_EL0 is write-only, so its trap bit, nPMZR_EL0, exists only in\nHDFGWTR2_EL2 and is therefore never set: a PMZR_EL0 write from the host\ntraps to EL2, where the nVHE hypervisor has no handler and BUG()s. The\nkernel never writes PMZR_EL0, but kernel.perf_user_access=1 has the PMU\ndriver set PMUSERENR_EL0.UEN for a task with a user-read event, so a\nwrite from EL0 reaches the trap and takes the host down without a panic\nmessage.\n\nAccumulate the HDFGWTR2_EL2 bits separately, as __init_el2_fgt() already\ndoes for HDFGWTR_EL2, and set nPMZR_EL0 with the other FEAT_PMUv3p9\nbits."
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