CVE-2026-63938

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: SEV: Check PSC request indices against the actual size of the buffer

When processing Page State Change (PSC) requests, validate the PSC buffer against the effective size of the scratch area, which could be less than the maximum size if the guest provided a pointer that isn't exactly at the start of the GHCB shared buffer.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux9b54e248d2644be71cb394eb85f31ad99e023a05 < 5198f70c09a5f6e9e5f5a0a2c6b388f24294b176affected
LinuxLinux9b54e248d2644be71cb394eb85f31ad99e023a05 < 75c8d1d7291268b479794fba5808971dc2f5eaf3affected
LinuxLinux9b54e248d2644be71cb394eb85f31ad99e023a05 < 505a3b94535583e4265360e2621734e355ef263daffected
LinuxLinux9b54e248d2644be71cb394eb85f31ad99e023a05 < 121d88de56bc5c0ba0ce2f6381af67f948a7e7c1affected
LinuxLinux6.11affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.11unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.93 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.35 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.0.12 <= 7.0.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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