CVE-2026-53199

hv_netvsc: use kmap_local_page in netvsc_copy_to_send_buf

HIGH 7.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.50 % · percentile 43 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Modified

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hv_netvsc: use kmap_local_page in netvsc_copy_to_send_buf netvsc_copy_to_send_buf() copies page buffer entries into the VMBus send buffer using phys_to_virt() on the entry PFN. Entries for the RNDIS header and the skb linear data come from kmalloc'd memory and are always in the kernel direct map, but entries for skb fragments reference page cache or user pages, which on 32-bit x86 with CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y can live above the LOWMEM boundary. For such a page phys_to_virt() returns an address outside the direct map and the subsequent memcpy() faults on the transmit softirq path, which is fatal. Map the pages with kmap_local_page() instead, handling two properties of the page buffer entries: - pb[i].pfn is a Hyper-V PFN at HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE (4K) granularity, not a native PFN. Reconstruct the physical address first and derive the native page from it, so the mapping stays correct where PAGE_SIZE > HV_HYP_PAGE_SIZE (e.g. arm64 with 64K pages). - Since commit 41a6328b2c55 ("hv_netvsc: Preserve contiguous PFN grouping in the page buffer array"), an entry describes a full physically contiguous fragment and pb[i].len can exceed PAGE_SIZE, while kmap_local_page() maps a single page. Copy page by page, splitting at native page boundaries. The copy path only handles packets smaller than the send section size (6144 bytes by default); larger packets take the cp_partial path where only the RNDIS header is copied. So entries here are bounded by the section size and a copy is split at most once on 4K-page systems. On !CONFIG_HIGHMEM configs kmap_local_page() folds to page_address() and no mapping work is added.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected c25aaf814a63f9d9c4e45416f13d70ef0aa0be2e < 16514afeb7d3d121072ba9a0b640d6c1c5507db0 ; affected c25aaf814a63f9d9c4e45416f13d70ef0aa0be2e < a82d4251918f37d9c5aab7b365157669fb885ec3 ; affected c25aaf814a63f9d9c4e45416f13d70ef0aa0be2e < 695c59cf7bf707e6ff8cea01916ee50e86616933 ; affected c25aaf814a63f9d9c4e45416f13d70ef0aa0be2e < 09b8a7aa5a341bb345dc492aac139525efa13515 ; affected c25aaf814a63f9d9c4e45416f13d70ef0aa0be2e < 918c0c988239aa5ab96b254e504d191af6191061 ; affected c25aaf814a63f9d9c4e45416f13d70ef0aa0be2e < 0b38870d81ab3a04c1ab0598d9d3285f5d9d0584
Linux · Linuxaffected 3.16 ; unaffected 0 < 3.16 ; unaffected 5.10.259 ≤ 5.10.* ; unaffected 5.15.210 ≤ 5.15.* ; unaffected 6.1.176 ≤ 6.1.* ; unaffected 6.6.143 ≤ 6.6.*

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD