CVE-2026-72280

Updated on 15 Aug 2026

Severity

Awaiting Analysis

Details

CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: arm64: nv: Drop bogus WARN for write to ZCR_EL2

It is entirely possible for a guest to write to the ZCR_EL2 sysreg alias while in a nested context, as it is expected if FEAT_NV2 is advertised to the L1 hypervisor.

Get rid of the bogus WARN which, since the hyp vectors were installed at this point, has the effect of a hyp_panic…

Details

Affected packages:
kernel @ 5.14.0 (+2 more)

Fixes