CVE-2026-52969
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2026
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
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
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb | affected | git | 74f1a22f7a80f03d28ad8551a2d25d563433addf | Unavailable | None listed |
| fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb | affected | git | 0eb281eb95b2d4eea4db1da5fe91023aecc97095 | Unavailable | None listed |
| fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb | affected | git | 01b71b930f15728aa8599478a7ce90c19dcd9fc2 | Unavailable | None listed |
| fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb | affected | git | b315b033a877b1ee6d827810b5d7bb4392ffcf8d | Unavailable | None listed |
| fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb | affected | git | 0d419c23bb11b5c9664de777c47c1f04a235882d | Unavailable | None listed |
| fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb | affected | git | ecf9b3ea7847fe14f34b8c41f00de1eb95c747da | Unavailable | None listed |
| fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb | affected | git | 577a8d3bae0531f0e5ccfac919cd8192f920a804 | 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.11 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 5.11 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 5.15.209 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 5.15.* | None listed |
| 6.1.175 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.1.* | None listed |
| 6.6.141 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.91 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.33 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.0.10 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.0.* | None listed |
| 7.1 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |