Bug 2492280 (CVE-2026-52959) - CVE-2026-52959 kernel: virt: sev-guest: Do not use host-controlled page order in cleanup path
Summary: CVE-2026-52959 kernel: virt: sev-guest: Do not use host-controlled page order...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-52959
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-24 18:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-25 16:11 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-24 18:02:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

virt: sev-guest: Do not use host-controlled page order in cleanup path

When issuing an extended guest request (SVM_VMGEXIT_EXT_GUEST_REQUEST),
get_ext_report() allocates a buffer to retrieve a certificate blob from the
host, keeping track of its size in report_req->certs_len.

However, the host may return SNP_GUEST_VMM_ERR_INVALID_LEN, indicating
an invalid buffer size, as well as the expected length of such buffer.
get_ext_report() subsequently updates report_req->certs_len with the
host-controlled value, and cleans up the buffer by computing a page order
from such value. This is incorrect, as the host-provided length may not
match the page order of the original allocation, potentially resulting
in corruption in the page allocator.

Fix this by using alloc_pages_exact() instead, and reusing @npages to
compute the size passed to free_pages_exact(). For consistency, also
use @npages to compute the size when allocating the pages, even though
this last change has no functional effect.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2026-06-25 14:51:45 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2026062436-CVE-2026-52959-1796@gregkh/T


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