CVE-2026-52959
virt: sev-guest: Do not use host-controlled page order in cleanup path
Vexday Risk Score
3Bajo
Decisión SSVC (CISA)
Track
Sin señal de explotación → monitorear
CVSS —EPSS 0.1%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Ciclo de vida
24 jun 2026Publicada en NVD
Recomendación: Monitorear — sin señal de explotación por ahora.
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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