CVE-2024-36911

hv_netvsc: Don't free decrypted memory

At a glance

Severity
CRITICAL 9.8
EPSS
EPSS 0.62 % · percentile 49 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hv_netvsc: Don't free decrypted memory In CoCo VMs it is possible for the untrusted host to cause set_memory_encrypted() or set_memory_decrypted() to fail such that an error is returned and the resulting memory is shared. Callers need to take care to handle these errors to avoid returning decrypted (shared) memory to the page allocator, which could lead to functional or security issues. The netvsc driver could free decrypted/shared pages if set_memory_decrypted() fails. Check the decrypted field in the gpadl to decide whether to free the memory.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected d4dccf353db80e209f262e3973c834e6e48ba9a9 < a56fe611326332bf6b7126e5559590c57dcebad4 ; affected d4dccf353db80e209f262e3973c834e6e48ba9a9 < 4aaed9dbe8acd2b6114458f0498a617283d6275b ; affected d4dccf353db80e209f262e3973c834e6e48ba9a9 < bbf9ac34677b57506a13682b31a2a718934c0e31
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.16 ; unaffected 0 < 5.16 ; unaffected 6.6.31 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.8.10 ≤ 6.8.* ; unaffected 6.9 ≤ *

References

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD