CVE-2023-52659
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2023
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
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
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6c3211796326a9d35618b866826ca556c8f008a8 | affected | git | 325956b0173f11e98f90462be4829a8b8b0682ce | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6c3211796326a9d35618b866826ca556c8f008a8 | affected | git | 7e1471888a5e6e846e9b4d306e5327db2b58e64e | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6c3211796326a9d35618b866826ca556c8f008a8 | affected | git | 814305b5c23cb815ada68d43019f39050472b25f | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6c3211796326a9d35618b866826ca556c8f008a8 | affected | git | 8e5647a723c49d73b9f108a8bb38e8c29d3948ea | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 6.5 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.6.23 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.7.11 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.7.* | None listed |
| 6.8.2 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.8.* | None listed |
| 6.9 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |