CVE-2026-52959
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virt: sev-guest: Do not use host-controlled page order in cleanup path
When issuing an extended guest request (SVM_VMGEXIT_EXT_GUEST_REQUEST),
get_ext_report() allocates a buffer to retrieve a certificate blob from the
host, keeping track of its size in report_req->certs_len.
However, the host may return SNP_GUEST_VMM_ERR_INVALID_LEN, indicating
an invalid buffer size, as well as the expected length of such buffer.
get_ext_report() subsequently updates report_req->certs_len with the
host-controlled value, and cleans up the buffer by computing a page order
from such value. This is incorrect, as the host-provided length may not
match the page order of the original allocation, potentially resulting
in corruption in the page allocator.
Fix this by using alloc_pages_exact() instead, and reusing @npages to
compute the size passed to free_pages_exact(). For consistency, also
use @npages to compute the size when allocating the pages, even though
this last change has no functional effect.
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Affected products (2)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | — | 3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748 < 3f6fb0211b39aaa1b841260681dd02ca6b693ed5, 3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748 < 9e48b4f813d2c3db75d522aa82ab705ce04b7e2d, 3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748 < 23e6a1ca04ae44806439a5a446e62e4d42e80bb4, 0b16521f95c875e79d657cb8d6911c15080dbb80 … |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.14, 0 < 6.14, 6.18.33 ≤ 6.18.*, 7.0.10 ≤ 7.0.* … |
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