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CVE-2023-52659

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2023
Source publication
Source updated
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Source snapshot
cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

x86/mm: Ensure input to pfn_to_kaddr() is treated as a 64-bit type

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm: Ensure input to pfn_to_kaddr() is treated as a 64-bit type On 64-bit platforms, the pfn_to_kaddr() macro requires that the input value is 64 bits in order to ensure that valid address bits don't get lost when shifting that input by PAGE_SHIFT to calculate the physical address to provide a virtual address for. One such example is in pvalidate_pages() (used by SEV-SNP guests), where the GFN in the struct used for page-state change requests is a 40-bit bit-field, so attempts to pass this GFN field directly into pfn_to_kaddr() ends up causing guest crashes when dealing with addresses above the 1TB range due to the above. Fix this issue with SEV-SNP guests, as well as any similar cases that might cause issues in current/future code, by using an inline function, instead of a macro, so that the input is implicitly cast to the expected 64-bit input type prior to performing the shift operation. While it might be argued that the issue is on the caller side, other archs/macros have taken similar approaches to deal with instances like this, such as ARM explicitly casting the input to phys_addr_t: e48866647b48 ("ARM: 8396/1: use phys_addr_t in pfn_to_kaddr()") A C inline function is even better though. [ mingo: Refined the changelog some more & added __always_inline. ]

Scoped product and version facts

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.

Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
unaffected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6c3211796326a9d35618b866826ca556c8f008a8affectedgit325956b0173f11e98f90462be4829a8b8b0682ceUnavailableNone listed
6c3211796326a9d35618b866826ca556c8f008a8affectedgit7e1471888a5e6e846e9b4d306e5327db2b58e64eUnavailableNone listed
6c3211796326a9d35618b866826ca556c8f008a8affectedgit814305b5c23cb815ada68d43019f39050472b25fUnavailableNone listed
6c3211796326a9d35618b866826ca556c8f008a8affectedgit8e5647a723c49d73b9f108a8bb38e8c29d3948eaUnavailableNone listed

Linux

Vendor
Linux
Product
Linux
Platforms
Unknown
Default status
affected
Linux · Scoped product and version facts
Version (version)Status (status)Version scheme (versionType)Exclusive end (lessThan)Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual)Status changes (at → status)
6.5affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver6.5UnavailableNone listed
6.6.23unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.7.11unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.7.*None listed
6.8.2unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.8.*None listed
6.9unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed