CVE-2026-89513

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A nested guest\ntriggered:\n\nBUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0xa4/0x142\nRead of size 4 at addr ff600000074d46b0 by task init/1\nCall Trace:\n[<ffffffff8006471c>] kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0xa4/0x142\n[<ffffffff800690c0>] kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler+0xca/0x268\n[<ffffffff8006779e>] kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall+0xec/0x1e6\n[<ffffffff8006008c>] kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit+0x48c/0x540\n[<ffffffff8005ea0a>] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x37e/0xc80\nAllocated by task 1:\n __kmalloc_noprof+0x19e/0x4b0\n kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info+0x72/0x142\n kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler+0xca/0x268\n kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall+0xec/0x1e6\n kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit+0x48c/0x540\n kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x37e/0xc80\nThe buggy address is located 0 bytes to the right of\n allocated 16-byte region [ff600000074d46a0, ff600000074d46b0)\n\nStore the shared-memory size in size_t and reject multiplication overflow.\nAllocate the guest-driven array with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT so it is charged\nto kmemcg, and use __GFP_NOWARN to suppress allocation failure warnings.\nUse kvcalloc() to allow vmalloc fallback and an unsigned long loop index\nto match num_events."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 8.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The overflow is reached when a RISC-V KVM guest issues an SBI ECALL (EXC_SUPERVISOR_SYSCALL) for SBI_EXT_PMU_EVENT_GET_INFO, handled on the host KVM_RUN path via kvm_riscv_vcpu_exit, kvm_riscv_vcpu_sbi_ecall, kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler, and kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info; this is a local guest hypercall path with no network or physical exposure.\nAC:L - A guest that sets flags=0, a 16-byte-aligned shared-memory GPA, and num_events=0x10000001 on RV64 makes num_events*sizeof(*einfo) truncate from 0x100000010 to 16, so kzalloc gets one entry while the loop uses the original count; the attacker controls every parameter and needs no race or uncontrollable host layout.\nPR:L - Issuing the SBI ECALL requires VS-mode in a KVM guest (tenant kernel or custom image) or a host kvm-group user running QEMU, not host init-namespace root; kvm_sbi_ext_pmu_handler has no capability check, and SBI PMU is enabled by default once kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_init succeeds.\nUI:N - The attacker guest issues SBI_EXT_PMU_EVENT_GET_INFO itself during KVM_RUN; no separate victim action such as attaching a device, mounting a filesystem, or confirming a prompt is required.\nS:C - The slab out-of-bounds access runs in the host kernel while handling a guest SBI call, crossing the KVM guest-to-hypervisor boundary so host heap corruption can compromise the hypervisor and co-located VMs, which CNA guidance rates Changed for KVM guest-to-host escape.\nC:H - After the truncated 16-byte allocation, the loop reads event_idx and event_data from adjacent host slab for 0x10000001 entries; that unbounded host-heap out-of-bounds read, together with the following heap corruption, can be leveraged for kernel memory disclosure.\nI:H - The same loop writes einfo[i].output (0 or 1) past the 16-byte object at a 16-byte stride for about 2^28 iterations, an unbounded host-slab out-of-bounds write that smashes neighboring objects and heap metadata and is scored High per CNA out-of-bounds-write guidance.\nA:H - KASAN reported a host slab-out-of-bounds in kvm_riscv_vcpu_pmu_event_info, and walking billions of bytes past a 16-byte allocation reliably oopses or panics the host kernel, denying service to the hypervisor and every co-located VM."}]}], "affected": [{"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c"], "versions": [{"version": "e309fd113b9f6c34672a487be08fecb7e12e7e29", "lessThan": "ddbd71a3780942918a7d116d666313e5b3304d73", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "e309fd113b9f6c34672a487be08fecb7e12e7e29", "lessThan": "82088f88c96b99c27a974d09b02c2b133262fadf", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}, {"version": "e309fd113b9f6c34672a487be08fecb7e12e7e29", "lessThan": "735bc20c24187ca419c9d5e63860a54b91be34bd", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git"}]}, {"product": "Linux", "vendor": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git", "programFiles": ["arch/riscv/kvm/vcpu_pmu.c"], "versions": [{"version": "6.18", "status": "affected"}, {"version": "0", "lessThan": "6.18", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "6.18.57", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.2.4", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver"}, {"version": "7.3", "lessThanOrEqual": "*", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"}]}], "cpeApplicability": [{"nodes": [{"operator": "OR", "negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.18", "versionEndExcluding": "6.18.57"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.18", "versionEndExcluding": "7.2.4"}, {"vulnerable": true, "criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "versionStartIncluding": "6.18", "versionEndExcluding": "7.3"}]}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ddbd71a3780942918a7d116d666313e5b3304d73"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82088f88c96b99c27a974d09b02c2b133262fadf"}, {"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/735bc20c24187ca419c9d5e63860a54b91be34bd"}], "title": "RISC-V: KVM: Fix PMU event info array size overflow", "x_generator": {"engine": "bippy-1.2.0"}}}}

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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: Linux kernel KVM (RISC-V): Memory corruption due to PMU event info array overflow", "id": "2532187", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2532187"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "7.0", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "cwe": "CWE-787", "details": ["A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) component for RISC-V architectures. A malicious guest operating system could exploit an integer overflow vulnerability by providing a crafted number of Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU) events during the SBI PMU EVENT_GET_INFO call. This leads to KVM allocating insufficient memory, resulting in out-of-bounds reads and writes. This memory corruption could allow a malicious guest to cause a denial of service (DoS) or potentially escalate privileges on the host system."], "name": "CVE-2026-89513", "public_date": "2026-09-11T19:43:57Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89513\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89513\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/735bc20c24187ca419c9d5e63860a54b91be34bd\nhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/82088f88c96b99c27a974d09b02c2b133262fadf"], "threat_severity": "Important"}

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