New Linux Kernel Flaw Gives ARM64 KVM Guests Read-Write Access to Host Memory

New Linux Kernel Flaw Gives ARM64 KVM Guests Read-Write Access to Host Memory

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A new flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM virtualization code for ARM64 processors can leave a freed piece of host memory exposed to a guest virtual machine on hosts with nested virtualization enabled.

The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-89775, allows a guest to read and write host kernel memory, and the researcher who found it says it can be used to escape the guest and run code on the host machine.

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