Bug 2565711 (CVE-2026-99258)

Summary:	CVE-2026-99258 kernel: kernel: hyperv: Memory corruption via unallocated hypercall output page
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Priority:	medium
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 Hyper-V subsystem. When operating in an AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) confidential virtual machine without a paravisor, the kernel fails to allocate an output buffer for hypervisor communication. Consequently, querying virtual processor information causes the hypervisor to write into unallocated guest memory, which can lead to memory corruption, system instability, or a Denial of Service (DoS).	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-03 11:31:54 UTC

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

x86/hyperv: Avoid using per-cpu output page in hv_apicid_to_vp_index()

hv_apicid_to_vp_index() currently uses the per-cpu hypercall input
and output pages. This function is called when running in VTL2 and
when running in an SEV-SNP CoCo VM with no paravisor. In the former
case, the output page is allocated, but in the latter case it is
not, so the hypervisor stores the output VP index in memory that has
not been allocated by the guest.

Fix this by using the input page for both input and output. The
hypercall has very small input and output, so sharing the same
page for both is straightforward. An alternative fix is to
allocate the per-cpu output page when running in an SEV-SNP CoCo
guest, but this uses significantly more memory, particularly
with larger vCPUs counts.