Bug 2532187 (CVE-2026-89513)

Summary:	CVE-2026-89513 kernel: RISC-V: KVM: Fix PMU event info array size overflow
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, jdelft, jupierce, lgarciaa, mbiarnes, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) component for RISC-V architectures. A malicious guest operating system could exploit an integer overflow vulnerability by providing a crafted number of Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) events during the SBI PMU EVENT_GET_INFO call. This leads to KVM allocating insufficient memory, resulting in out-of-bounds reads and writes. This memory corruption could allow a malicious guest to cause a denial of service (DoS) or potentially escalate privileges on the host system.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-11 21:12:32 UTC

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RISC-V: KVM: Fix PMU event info array size overflow

SBI PMU EVENT_GET_INFO stores guest-controlled num_events * sizeof(*einfo)
in a 32-bit integer. On RV64, num_events = 0x10000001 makes 0x100000010
truncate to 16. KVM then allocates one entry but loops over the original
num_events, causing out-of-bounds reads and writes. A nested guest
triggered:

BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0xa4/0x142
Read of size 4 at addr ff600000074d46b0 by task init/1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8006471c>] kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0xa4/0x142
[<ffffffff800690c0>] kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler+0xca/0x268
[<ffffffff8006779e>] kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall+0xec/0x1e6
[<ffffffff8006008c>] kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit+0x48c/0x540
[<ffffffff8005ea0a>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x37e/0xc80
Allocated by task 1:
 __kmalloc_noprof+0x19e/0x4b0
 kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0x72/0x142
 kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler+0xca/0x268
 kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall+0xec/0x1e6
 kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit+0x48c/0x540
 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x37e/0xc80
The buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of
 allocated 16-byte region [ff600000074d46a0, ff600000074d46b0)

Store the shared-memory size in size_t and reject multiplication overflow.
Allocate the guest-driven array with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so it is charged
to kmemcg, and use __GFP_NOWARN to suppress allocation failure warnings.
Use kvcalloc() to allow vmalloc fallback and an unsigned long loop index
to match num_events.

Comment 1 Keith Grant 2026-09-18 12:42:29 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2026/CVE-2026-89513.mbox