Bug 2524419 (CVE-2026-80554) - CVE-2026-80554 kernel: s390/vfio_ccw: Limit the number of channel program segments
Summary: CVE-2026-80554 kernel: s390/vfio_ccw: Limit the number of channel program seg...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80554
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-26 14:47 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-27 05:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-26 14:47:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/vfio_ccw: Limit the number of channel program segments

The processing of channel programs, and the CCWs within them, is done
recursively. As such, there is an arbitrary (but not architectural)
limit to the number of CCWs that can exist in a single channel program.

The vfio-ccw logic breaks these channel programs into segments whenever
it encounters a Transfer-In-Channel (TIC) CCW, and the combined number
of segments count towards the global limit. Impose an equivalent limit
to the number of segments until such logic can be made non-recursive.


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