CVE-2026-64307

Summary

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

crypto: ccp - Do not initialize SNP for ioctl(SNP_CONFIG)

Sashiko notes:

> if SEV initialization fails and KVM is actively running normal VMs, could a > userspace process trigger this code path via /dev/sev ioctls (e.g., > SEV_PDH_GEN) and zero out MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA globally? Would the next VMRUN > execution for an active VM trigger a general protection fault and crash the > host?

Refuse to re-try initialization if SNP is not already initialized for SNP_CONFIG.

This is technically an ABI break: before if SNP initialization failed it could be transparently retriggered by this ioctl, and if no VMs were running, everything worked fine. Hopefully this is enough of a corner case that nobody will notice, but someone does, there are a few options:

  • do something like symbol_get() for kvm and refuse to initialize if KVM is loaded
  • check each cpu's HSAVE_PA for non-zero data before re-initializing
  • once initialization has failed, continue to refuse to initialize until the ccp module is unloaded

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux1c3506ea8599a3ad1b9aae5cbd573134f8d18db7 < 345a6e869b33687e9268044bcaeeefd7c61da675affected
LinuxLinuxceac7fb89e8da465aec3ac3c20477f912f5c3a6c < 441ea32cf2755a0dc593557056b00b7caa0651f5affected
LinuxLinuxceac7fb89e8da465aec3ac3c20477f912f5c3a6c < 20f548cdac94860a164e5ebba4f7e4a01051cb06affected
LinuxLinuxceac7fb89e8da465aec3ac3c20477f912f5c3a6c < 08f0e65e784c4b20e6e620dd4f68d8636073a3d2affected
LinuxLinux6.12.75 < 6.12.97affected
LinuxLinux6.16affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.16unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.97 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.39 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.4 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2-rc1 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

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