Bug 2424944 (CVE-2023-53996) - CVE-2023-53996 kernel: x86/sev: Make enc_dec_hypercall() accept a size instead of npages
Summary: CVE-2023-53996 kernel: x86/sev: Make enc_dec_hypercall() accept a size instea...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-53996
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-12-24 12:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-25 14:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-24 12:02:32 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/sev: Make enc_dec_hypercall() accept a size instead of npages

enc_dec_hypercall() accepted a page count instead of a size, which
forced its callers to round up. As a result, non-page aligned
vaddrs caused pages to be spuriously marked as decrypted via the
encryption status hypercall, which in turn caused consistent
corruption of pages during live migration. Live migration requires
accurate encryption status information to avoid migrating pages
from the wrong perspective.


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