CVE-2026-31553 (GCVE-0-2026-31553)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 14:35 – Updated: 2026-08-05 12:23
VLAI
Title
KVM: arm64: Fix the descriptor address in __kvm_at_swap_desc()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Fix the descriptor address in __kvm_at_swap_desc() Using "(u64 __user *)hva + offset" to get the virtual addresses of S1/S2 descriptors looks really wrong, if offset is not zero. What we want to get for swapping is hva + offset, not hva + offset*8. ;-) Fix it.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: f6927b41d57390c597a126063e2e518911976878 , < 4307e05e568782fc92eff651b09ee5dee88a058d (git)
Affected: f6927b41d57390c597a126063e2e518911976878 , < 0496acc42fb51eee040b5170cec05cec41385540 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.11 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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