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CVE-2026-45944, published by NVD on May 27, 2026 and sourced from kernel.org, fixes a Linux Intel VT-d IOMMU bug where the kernel could tear down a 128-bit context entry in pieces while hardware still considered it present. The immediate patch is small, but the lesson is not. This is the kind of...

CVE-2026-43161, published by NVD on May 6, 2026, describes a Linux kernel Intel VT-d flaw where PCIe devices using ATS and passthrough can hard-lock a host when the device becomes inaccessible during removal, link failure, or userspace teardown. That sounds like a narrow kernel corner case, and...

The Linux kernel's VT-d IOMMU driver received a targeted upstream patch that closes a race-condition and use-after-free exposure in the I/O page-fault (IOPF) reporting path by switching to a rbtree lookup for probed devices and introducing a synchronization mutex — a change that corrects a...