Bug 2507090 (CVE-2026-64307) - CVE-2026-64307 kernel: crypto: ccp - Do not initialize SNP for ioctl(SNP_CONFIG)
Summary: CVE-2026-64307 kernel: crypto: ccp - Do not initialize SNP for ioctl(SNP_CONFIG)
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-64307
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-07-25 10:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-30 03:33 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-25 10:04:30 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

crypto: ccp - Do not initialize SNP for ioctl(SNP_CONFIG)

Sashiko notes:

> if SEV initialization fails and KVM is actively running normal VMs, could a
> userspace process trigger this code path via /dev/sev ioctls (e.g.,
> SEV_PDH_GEN) and zero out MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA globally? Would the next VMRUN
> execution for an active VM trigger a general protection fault and crash the
> host?

Refuse to re-try initialization if SNP is not already initialized for
SNP_CONFIG.

This is technically an ABI break: before if SNP initialization failed it
could be transparently retriggered by this ioctl, and if no VMs were
running, everything worked fine. Hopefully this is enough of a corner case
that nobody will notice, but someone does, there are a few options:

* do something like symbol_get() for kvm and refuse to initialize if KVM is
  loaded
* check each cpu's HSAVE_PA for non-zero data before re-initializing
* once initialization has failed, continue to refuse to initialize until
  the ccp module is unloaded


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