Bug 2562668 (CVE-2026-99177) - CVE-2026-99177 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via improper page dirtying locking in KVM SEV
Summary: CVE-2026-99177 kernel: kernel: Denial of Service via improper page dirtying l...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-99177
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 DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-10-28 10:46 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-02 14:21 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-28 10:46:49 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: SEV: Fix page dirtying in sev_gmem_post_populate()

set_page_dirty() requires that the caller holds some kind of lock to
ensure that the page's mapping does not concurrently go away.
That is not the case for a random page we got from get_user_pages_fast(),
so use set_page_dirty_lock().

[sean: tag for stable]


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