CVE-2026-52959

Summary

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 Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f6fb0211b39aaa1b841260681dd02ca6b693ed5
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9e48b4f813d2c3db75d522aa82ab705ce04b7e2d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23e6a1ca04ae44806439a5a446e62e4d42e80bb4

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