KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-31590
MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.13 % · percentile 2 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION Drop the WARN in sev_pin_memory() on npages overflowing an int, as the WARN is comically trivially to trigger from userspace, e.g. by doing: struct kvm_enc_region range = { .addr = 0, .size = -1ul, }; __vm_ioctl(vm, KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION, &range); Note, the checks in sev_mem_enc_register_region() that presumably exist to verify the incoming address+size are completely worthless, as both "addr" and "size" are u64s and SEV is 64-bit only, i.e. they _can't_ be greater than ULONG_MAX. That wart will be cleaned up in the near future. if (range->addr > ULONG_MAX || range->size > ULONG_MAX) return -EINVAL; Opportunistically add a comment to explain why the code calculates the number of pages the "hard" way, e.g. instead of just shifting @ulen.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
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)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 < 6a8e3c82122737529b25ef2a048fbcc569d8c055 ; affected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 < a703933bcfa5cc76ca10e2048464600e74136099 ; affected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 < abcd43ff579abd0a654bb4636086e78819dd5f4c ; affected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 < b670833749ffd8681361db2bb047c6f2e3075f3a ; affected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 < ab423e5892826202a660b5ac85d1125b0e8301a5 ; affected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 < 28cc13ca20431b127d42d84ba10898d03e2c8267
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.9 ; unaffected 0 < 5.9 ; unaffected 5.10.258 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.209 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.175 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.136 ≤ 6.6.*

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