CVE-2026-31590
Published: Apr 24, 2026
Modified: Jun 1, 2026
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 - < 6a8e3c82122737529b25ef2a048fbcc569d8c055affected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 - < a703933bcfa5cc76ca10e2048464600e74136099affected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 - < abcd43ff579abd0a654bb4636086e78819dd5f4caffected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 - < b670833749ffd8681361db2bb047c6f2e3075f3aaffected 78824fabc72e5e37d51e6e567fde70a4fc41a6d7 - < ab423e5892826202a660b5ac85d1125b0e8301a5+4 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.9unaffected 0 - < 5.9unaffected 5.10.258 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.209 - <= 5.15.*unaffected 6.1.175 - <= 6.1.*+6 more versions |
References
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