CVE-2026-52959

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

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: June 24, 2026 at 04:28 PM UTC
Updated: August 5, 2026 at 01:24 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v ≥ 6.13.86.13.8 ≤ v < 6.146.14 ≤ v < 6.18.336.14 ≤ v < 7.0.106.14 ≤ v < 7.16.14.1 ≤ v < 6.18.336.19 ≤ v < 7.0.100b16521f95c875e79d657cb8d6911c15080dbb803e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d8307486.13.86.146.14 rc66.14 rc77.1 rc17.1 rc27.1 rc3
Vendor states this is fixed in 23e6a1ca04ae44806439a5a446e62e4d42e80bb4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 3f6fb0211b39aaa1b841260681dd02ca6b693ed5 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9e48b4f813d2c3db75d522aa82ab705ce04b7e2d (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.14 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.33 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.10 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

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StatusANALYZED
CWE
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