CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-64307
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: ccp - Do not initialize SNP for ioctl(SNP_CONFIG)
Sashiko notes:
> if SEV initialization fails and KVM is actively running normal VMs, could a
> userspace process trigger this code path via /dev/sev ioctls (e.g.,
> SEV_PDH_GEN) and zero out MSR_VM_HSAVE_PA globally? Would the next VMRUN
> execution for an active VM trigger a general protection fault and crash the
> host?
Refuse to re-try initialization if SNP is not already initialized for
SNP_CONFIG.
This is technically an ABI break: before if SNP initialization failed it
could be transparently retriggered by this ioctl, and if no VMs were
running, everything worked fine. Hopefully this is enough of a corner case
that nobody will notice, but someone does, there are a few options:
* do something like symbol_get() for kvm and refuse to initialize if KVM is
loaded
* check each cpu's HSAVE_PA for non-zero data before re-initializing
* once initialization has failed, continue to refuse to initialize until
the ccp module is unloaded
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12.75 < 6.12.97)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.18.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.19 < 7.1.4)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08f0e65e784c4b20e6e620dd4f68d8636073a3d2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/20f548cdac94860a164e5ebba4f7e4a01051cb06 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/345a6e869b33687e9268044bcaeeefd7c61da675 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/441ea32cf2755a0dc593557056b00b7caa0651f5 Patch