CVE-2026-52959

HIGH

virt: sev-guest: Do not use host-controlled page order in cleanup path

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0009
EPSS Percentile 0.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.14.0 - 6.18.33linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.14
Linux/Linux 0b16521f95c875e79d657cb8d6911c15080dbb80
Linux/Linux 3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748 - 23e6a1ca04ae44806439a5a446e62e4d42e80bb4
Linux/Linux 3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748 - 3f6fb0211b39aaa1b841260681dd02ca6b693ed5
Linux/Linux 3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748 - 9e48b4f813d2c3db75d522aa82ab705ce04b7e2d
Linux/Linux 6.13.8 - 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux 6.18.33 - 6.18.*
... and 2 more
Published Jun 24, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 24, 2026