CVE-2026-31590

MEDIUM

KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION Drop the WARN in sev_pin_memory() on npages overflowing an int, as the WARN is comically trivially to trigger from userspace, e.g. by doing: struct kvm_enc_region range = { .addr = 0, .size = -1ul, }; __vm_ioctl(vm, KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION, &range); Note, the checks in sev_mem_enc_register_region() that presumably exist to verify the incoming address+size are completely worthless, as both "addr" and "size" are u64s and SEV is 64-bit only, i.e. they _can't_ be greater than ULONG_MAX. That wart will be cleaned up in the near future. if (range->addr > ULONG_MAX || range->size > ULONG_MAX) return -EINVAL; Opportunistically add a comment to explain why the code calculates the number of pages the "hard" way, e.g. instead of just shifting @ulen.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0013
EPSS Percentile 2.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (34)
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.209linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 6.1.175linux
linux/Kernel 5.9.0 - 5.10.258linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.24linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 6.19.14linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.136linux
linux/Kernel 6.20.0 - 7.0.1linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.83linux
Linux/Linux < 5.9
Linux/Linux 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 - 1cba4dcd795daf6d257122779fb6a349edf03914
... and 24 more
Published Apr 24, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 24, 2026