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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-98877" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-10-23T11:37:23.678Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-23T11:37:23.678Z" 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-2026-98877" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98877.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98877" title: "irqchip/gic-v4: Don't advertise VLPIs if no ITS is probed" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nirqchip/gic-v4: Don't advertise VLPIs if no ITS is probed\n\nWhen accidentally setting “kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=1” on a system that has\nno MSI controller device tree node and GICv4, it results a panic as\n“gic_domain” is NULL and the kernel attempts to access it.\n\n Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000028\n Mem abort info:\n ESR = 0x0000000096000006\n\n CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 295 Comm: lkvm-static Not tainted 7.1.0-rc4-ge3f15ad3970e #5 PREEMPT\n Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n pstate: 81402005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n pc : __irq_domain_instantiate+0x1d4/0x578\n lr : __irq_domain_instantiate+0x1cc/0x578\n\nSet vLPI support to false at init time if the host has no ITS, so it\npropagates properly to kvm_vgic_global_state.has_gicv4." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3e4cae9f1472ba3c9fe87edee24074618b51f537"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a2508b8855acc96abe69be73b41b672f1ef12516"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e79934064be85fc9a3a6434da857307d8b78e33d"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4761493dd663443f7353c184e6fa16e1cb3ac5a1"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ab233119a19716b8f33e73ea7e092e0eb353cfbf"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c8a911b3b07baa0aeb3dbc4e16a4670bd21bed40"},{"version":"1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"e61654fbc3bc5d07ec9fafe29f33e19b2b5d0fd5"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.10.271"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15.222"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1.189"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.6.158"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.111"},{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18.53"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.10.271","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.222","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.189","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.158","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.111","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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