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CVE-2026-31590 Detail

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Drop WARN on large size for KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION Drop the WARN in sev_pin_memory() on npages overflowing an int, as the WARN is comically trivially to trigger from userspace, e.g. by doing: struct kvm_enc_region range = { .addr = 0, .size = -1ul, }; __vm_ioctl(vm, KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_REG_REGION, &range); Note, the checks in sev_mem_enc_register_region() that presumably exist to verify the incoming address+size are completely worthless, as both "addr" and "size" are u64s and SEV is 64-bit only, i.e. they _can't_ be greater than ULONG_MAX. That wart will be cleaned up in the near future. if (range->addr > ULONG_MAX || range->size > ULONG_MAX) return -EINVAL; Opportunistically add a comment to explain why the code calculates the number of pages the "hard" way, e.g. instead of just shifting @ulen.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1cba4dcd795daf6d257122779fb6a349edf03914 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/28cc13ca20431b127d42d84ba10898d03e2c8267 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ab423e5892826202a660b5ac85d1125b0e8301a5 kernel.org
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c29ff288a2d97a6f4640a498a367cf0eb91312eb kernel.org

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-31590
NVD Published Date:
04/24/2026
NVD Last Modified:
04/24/2026
Source:
kernel.org