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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98718"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-18T15:46:53.611Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:24:29.156Z"
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-2026-98718"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98718.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98718"
title: "KVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM *before* clearing SEV state"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: SEV: Do cache maintenance on the source VM *before* clearing SEV state\n\nExplicitly flush caches after intra-host migration before clearing \"SEV\nactive\" on the source VM, as doing cache maintenance afterwards creates a\ntiny window where memory reclaim could return memory to the host without\nperforming a cache flush, e.g. as pointed out by Sashiko:\n\n  CPU1 in sev_migrate_from():\n    src-\u003eactive = false;\n\n  CPU2 running concurrent unmap:\n    Since active is false, the automatic cache flush in\n    sev_guest_memory_reclaimed is skipped.\n    The host frees and reallocates the page.\n\n  CPU1 in sev_migrate_from():\n    sev_writeback_caches(src_kvm);\n    Executes a hardware cache flush (wbnoinvd), which writes the guest's old\n    dirty ciphertext over the new page owner's data."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"37dfb676fafd1eef36fe0bb649607afbb0d5521b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8b7d4f68fef96cebe0b6dbb6e5607772337f7369"},{"version":"d4cc2dff12116a700add601c0262132cc26e1b2c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"de83ff6a4d8f3618473bedb3c4400020c22e8a8a"},{"version":"93de2a6a4b91b72607136dd656edf03fb399d27f","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"973ea70393e885e540f714904e51bc6cac80e3d7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18.55","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.56"},{"version":"7.2.9","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"7.2.10"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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