CVE-2026-98156
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)
drm/virtio: use the DMA API for resource backing on Xen
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/virtio: use the DMA API for resource backing on Xen On a Xen PV domain page addresses bear no relation to the real machine addresses the host would have to use to reach it. virtio_ring.c handles this correctly, vring_use_map_api() returns true for any xen_domain() regardless of VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM. virtio-gpu makes the same decision independently, but its copy looks only at the feature bit: bool use_dma_api = !virtio_has_dma_quirk(vgdev->vdev); QEMU does not set iommu_platform on virtio-vga by default, so VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM is not negotiated, use_dma_api is false, and virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() describes the framebuffer's backing pages to the host with sg_phys(). Those are guest-physical addresses. In a PV domain they resolve, on the host side, to pages belonging to some other domain, so the host scans out unrelated memory. Move the decision into virtio_gpu_use_dma_api() and give it the xen_domain() check, like vring_use_map_api() has. This additionally enables the dma_sync_sgtable_for_device() calls in virtgpu_vq.c, which are required for correctness whenever swiotlb is in play. Reproduced with a Xen 4.21 PV dom0 nested inside QEMU 8.2 with virtio-vga, on both a distro 6.8 kernel and 6.18 LTS. A PVH dom0 works fine and doesn't need this fix because it is identity-mapped, only PV dom0s are affected.
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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| a3b815f09bb846255c458c181b8a5b1cc66891b4 | affected | git | 32e999ccf5f6453b3b4df8264ff1b03c6720292f | Unavailable | None listed |
| a3b815f09bb846255c458c181b8a5b1cc66891b4 | affected | git | 3f130cc6826fabf50e01fe8e4ff3ed1fcae50d36 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a3b815f09bb846255c458c181b8a5b1cc66891b4 | affected | git | 93c557e947ef0040004b1ac6a1c1265d79a957e1 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a3b815f09bb846255c458c181b8a5b1cc66891b4 | affected | git | 455184dbe9652d01470d3c5cf5edd09a7a673a99 | Unavailable | None listed |
| a3b815f09bb846255c458c181b8a5b1cc66891b4 | affected | git | 6a736d2f9d0c6e6217fe7532bc4c50ceca71db78 | 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.20 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 4.20 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.6.160 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.12.114 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.18.53 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.18.* | None listed |
| 7.2.7 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 7.2.* | None listed |
| 7.3 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |