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CVE-2026-89448 (GCVE-0-2026-89448)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-11 19:43 – Updated: 2026-09-14 11:59
VLAI
Title
iommu/vt-d: Force requesting ACS when tboot is enabled
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: iommu/vt-d: Force requesting ACS when tboot is enabled Currently the conditions of requesting ACS in detect_intel_iommu() don't include tboot, leading to a possible misconfiguration with ACS disabled (e.g. due to user opts) while iommu is later forced on by tboot_force_iommu(). Fix it by checking tboot in detect_intel_iommu().
Severity
9.3 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 5d990b627537e59a3a2f039ff588a4750e9c1a6a , < 579eb867d3da63f3b5e32f235925e1daa7ec70d0 (git)
Affected: 5d990b627537e59a3a2f039ff588a4750e9c1a6a , < aaeb81241e802c86be69394f72d49fde3f861fbb (git)
Affected: 5d990b627537e59a3a2f039ff588a4750e9c1a6a , < 45705a6bfdb283f7b3b509010fd617b72f942537 (git)
Affected: 5d990b627537e59a3a2f039ff588a4750e9c1a6a , < 87bc611c6c98a41c00feb7b06b0c297dd141a2ae (git)
Affected: 5d990b627537e59a3a2f039ff588a4750e9c1a6a , < 607432b2618b61df81134be0ef2562b8300c1216 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 2.6.33
Unaffected: 0 , < 2.6.33 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.157 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.109 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.50 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.4 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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