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CVE-2026-52969

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Record status
Published
Identifier year (not publication year)
2026
Source publication
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cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·

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CNA source text (English)

KVM: Reject wrapped offset in kvm_reset_dirty_gfn()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: Reject wrapped offset in kvm_reset_dirty_gfn() kvm_reset_dirty_gfn() guards the gfn range with if (!memslot || (offset + __fls(mask)) >= memslot->npages) return; but offset is u64 and the addition is unchecked. The check can be silently bypassed by a u64 wrap. The dirty ring backing those entries is MAP_SHARED at KVM_DIRTY_LOG_PAGE_OFFSET of the vcpu fd, so the VMM can rewrite the slot and offset fields of any entry between when the kernel pushes them and when KVM_RESET_DIRTY_RINGS consumes them. On reset, kvm_dirty_ring_reset() re-reads the values via READ_ONCE() and feeds them straight back into this check; only the flags handshake is treated as the handover, the slot/offset payload is taken on trust. Crafting two entries entry[i].offset = 0xffffffffffffffc1 entry[i+1].offset = 0 makes the coalescing loop in kvm_dirty_ring_reset() compute delta = (s64)(0 - 0xffffffffffffffc1) = 63 which falls in [0, BITS_PER_LONG), so it folds entry[i+1] into the existing mask by setting bit 63. The trailing kvm_reset_dirty_gfn() call then sees offset = 0xffffffffffffffc1 and __fls(mask) = 63; the sum is 0 in u64 and the bounds check passes. That offset propagates into kvm_arch_mmu_enable_log_dirty_pt_masked() unchanged. On the legacy MMU path -- kvm_memslots_have_rmaps() == true, i.e. shadow paging, any VM that has allocated shadow roots, or a write-tracked slot -- it reaches gfn_to_rmap(), which indexes slot->arch.rmap[0][] with a near-U64_MAX gfn. That is an out-of-bounds load of a kvm_rmap_head, followed by a conditional clear of PT_WRITABLE_MASK in whatever the loaded pointer points at. The path is reachable from any process holding /dev/kvm. Range-check offset on its own first, so the addition cannot wrap. memslot->npages is bounded well below U64_MAX, so once offset < npages holds, offset + __fls(mask) (with __fls(mask) < BITS_PER_LONG) stays in range.

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)
fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bbaffectedgit74f1a22f7a80f03d28ad8551a2d25d563433addfUnavailableNone listed
fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bbaffectedgit0eb281eb95b2d4eea4db1da5fe91023aecc97095UnavailableNone listed
fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bbaffectedgit01b71b930f15728aa8599478a7ce90c19dcd9fc2UnavailableNone listed
fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bbaffectedgitb315b033a877b1ee6d827810b5d7bb4392ffcf8dUnavailableNone listed
fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bbaffectedgit0d419c23bb11b5c9664de777c47c1f04a235882dUnavailableNone listed
fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bbaffectedgitecf9b3ea7847fe14f34b8c41f00de1eb95c747daUnavailableNone listed
fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bbaffectedgit577a8d3bae0531f0e5ccfac919cd8192f920a804UnavailableNone 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)
5.11affectedUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableNone listed
0unaffectedsemver5.11UnavailableNone listed
5.15.209unaffectedsemverUnavailable5.15.*None listed
6.1.175unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.1.*None listed
6.6.141unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.6.*None listed
6.12.91unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.12.*None listed
6.18.33unaffectedsemverUnavailable6.18.*None listed
7.0.10unaffectedsemverUnavailable7.0.*None listed
7.1unaffectedoriginal_commit_for_fixUnavailable*None listed