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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-52969" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-24T16:28:48.085Z" updatedAt: "2026-07-15T02:48:28.368Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52969" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-52969.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52969" title: "KVM: Reject wrapped offset in kvm_reset_dirty_gfn()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: Reject wrapped offset in kvm_reset_dirty_gfn()\n\nkvm_reset_dirty_gfn() guards the gfn range with\n\n\tif (!memslot || (offset + __fls(mask)) \u003e= memslot-\u003enpages)\n\t\treturn;\n\nbut offset is u64 and the addition is unchecked. The check can be\nsilently bypassed by a u64 wrap.\n\nThe dirty ring backing those entries is MAP_SHARED at\nKVM_DIRTY_LOG_PAGE_OFFSET of the vcpu fd, so the VMM can rewrite the\nslot and offset fields of any entry between when the kernel pushes\nthem and when KVM_RESET_DIRTY_RINGS consumes them. On reset,\nkvm_dirty_ring_reset() re-reads the values via READ_ONCE() and feeds\nthem straight back into this check; only the flags handshake is\ntreated as the handover, the slot/offset payload is taken on trust.\n\nCrafting two entries\n\n\tentry[i].offset = 0xffffffffffffffc1\n\tentry[i+1].offset = 0\n\nmakes the coalescing loop in kvm_dirty_ring_reset() compute\n\n\tdelta = (s64)(0 - 0xffffffffffffffc1) = 63\n\nwhich falls in [0, BITS_PER_LONG), so it folds entry[i+1] into the\nexisting mask by setting bit 63. The trailing kvm_reset_dirty_gfn()\ncall then sees offset = 0xffffffffffffffc1 and __fls(mask) = 63;\nthe sum is 0 in u64 and the bounds check passes.\n\nThat offset propagates into kvm_arch_mmu_enable_log_dirty_pt_masked()\nunchanged. On the legacy MMU path -- kvm_memslots_have_rmaps() ==\ntrue, i.e. shadow paging, any VM that has allocated shadow roots, or\na write-tracked slot -- it reaches gfn_to_rmap(), which indexes\nslot-\u003earch.rmap[0][] with a near-U64_MAX gfn. That is an\nout-of-bounds load of a kvm_rmap_head, followed by a conditional\nclear of PT_WRITABLE_MASK in whatever the loaded pointer points at.\nThe path is reachable from any process holding /dev/kvm.\n\nRange-check offset on its own first, so the addition cannot wrap.\nmemslot-\u003enpages is bounded well below U64_MAX, so once offset \u003c\nnpages holds, offset + __fls(mask) (with __fls(mask) \u003c BITS_PER_LONG)\nstays in range." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"74f1a22f7a80f03d28ad8551a2d25d563433addf"},{"version":"fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0eb281eb95b2d4eea4db1da5fe91023aecc97095"},{"version":"fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"01b71b930f15728aa8599478a7ce90c19dcd9fc2"},{"version":"fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b315b033a877b1ee6d827810b5d7bb4392ffcf8d"},{"version":"fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0d419c23bb11b5c9664de777c47c1f04a235882d"},{"version":"fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ecf9b3ea7847fe14f34b8c41f00de1eb95c747da"},{"version":"fb04a1eddb1a65b6588a021bdc132270d5ae48bb","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"577a8d3bae0531f0e5ccfac919cd8192f920a804"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.11"},{"version":"5.15.209","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.175","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.141","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.91","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.33","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.0.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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