CVE-2026-31590 (GCVE-0-2026-31590)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 14:42 – Updated: 2026-04-24 14:42
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Title
KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION
Summary
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.
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Linux Linux Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ab423e5892826202a660b5ac85d1125b0e8301a5 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 28cc13ca20431b127d42d84ba10898d03e2c8267 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < c29ff288a2d97a6f4640a498a367cf0eb91312eb (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 1cba4dcd795daf6d257122779fb6a349edf03914 (git)
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    Linux Linux Unaffected: 6.12.83 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.24 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.14 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.1 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
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