virt: sev-guest: Explicitly leak pages in unknown state (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-64104
HIGH 8.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.17 % · percentile 6 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: virt: sev-guest: Explicitly leak pages in unknown state When set_memory_{encrypted,decrypted}() fail, the user cannot know at which point the function failed, meaning that the pages are left in an unknown state from the point of view of the caller. Since the pages may be left in an unencrypted state, they are not suitable for general use, and cannot be returned safely to the buddy allocator. Avoid the issue by never freeing the pages, and then do the proper accounting by calling snp_leak_pages().

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:LLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:LNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748 < bee400ad4f4259c9c0758e4f1960a1eed6f6f9f0 ; affected 3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748 < 3d0cd0065deeb054b4b29236432e851806b7cc81 ; affected 3e385c0d6ce88ac9916dcf84267bd5855d830748 < fd948c3f96b18ff9ba7d3e8eae13d196593e1aaf ; affected 0b16521f95c875e79d657cb8d6911c15080dbb80 ; affected 6.13.8 < 6.14
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.14 ; unaffected 0 < 6.14 ; unaffected 6.18.34 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.0.11 ≤ 7.0.* ; unaffected 7.1 ≤ *

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