CVE-2026-52959

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52959
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-52959.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-52959
Downstream
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
openSUSE (1)
SUSE (5)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2026-06-24T16:28:40Z
Modified
2026-10-08T02:51:04Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
virt: sev-guest: Do not use host-controlled page order in cleanup path
Details

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.

Database specific
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}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748
Fixed
3f6fb0211b39aaa1b841260681dd02ca6b693ed5
Fixed
9e48b4f813d2c3db75d522aa82ab705ce04b7e2d
Fixed
23e6a1ca04ae44806439a5a446e62e4d42e80bb4
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
6.13.8
Fixed
6.14
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0b16521f95c875e79d657cb8d6911c15080dbb80

Affected versions

v6.*
v6.13.10
v6.13.11
v6.13.12
v6.13.8
v6.13.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-52959.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.14.0
Fixed
6.18.33
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.19.0
Fixed
7.0.10

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-52959.json"