CVE-2026-98156

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Those are guest-physical addresses. In a PV\ndomain they resolve, on the host side, to pages belonging to some other\ndomain, so the host scans out unrelated memory.\n\nMove the decision into virtio_gpu_use_dma_api() and give it the\nxen_domain() check, like vring_use_map_api() has. This\nadditionally enables the dma_sync_sgtable_for_device() calls in\nvirtgpu_vq.c, which are required for correctness whenever swiotlb\nis in play.\n\nReproduced with a Xen 4.21 PV dom0 nested inside QEMU 8.2 with\nvirtio-vga, on both a distro 6.8 kernel and 6.18 LTS. A PVH dom0\nworks fine and doesn't need this fix because it is identity-mapped,\nonly PV dom0s are affected."}], "metrics": [{"cvssV3_1": {"version": "3.1", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H", "baseScore": 7.8, "baseSeverity": "HIGH"}, "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "AV:L - The attacker is a local process in the Xen PV dom0. It opens the virtio-gpu render node and calls VIRTGPU_RESOURCE_CREATE, which runs virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init(), and then VIRTGPU_TRANSFER_TO_HOST or TRANSFER_FROM_HOST. No remote peer supplies the bad sg_phys() addresses; the guest driver builds them itself.\nAC:H - The bug only exists on a Xen PV dom0 nested inside QEMU with virtio-vga and without iommu_platform, so VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM is not negotiated. This is a rare deployment the attacker cannot create. The attacker also cannot choose which foreign machine frames the pseudo-physical pfns resolve to.\nPR:L - VIRTGPU_RESOURCE_CREATE, TRANSFER_TO_HOST and TRANSFER_FROM_HOST are all marked DRM_RENDER_ALLOW. Any user with access to /dev/dri/renderD* (render group or a logind seat ACL) can reach them without root.\nUI:N - The attacker creates the resource and issues the transfer ioctls entirely on their own. No other user has to act.\nS:C - virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() hands the host guest-pseudo-physical addresses, which the host resolves to machine frames owned by other Xen domains or by Xen itself. So a flaw in the dom0 driver affects memory outside that domain's security authority.\nC:H - virtio_gpu_cmd_transfer_to_host_2d/3d make the host copy unrelated machine pages (other domains' memory) into a host resource, which is then scanned out. With virgl, the attacker could plausibly copy that resource into memory they can read back.\nI:H - With virgl, VIRTGPU_TRANSFER_FROM_HOST makes the host write resource data to the wrong backing addresses. Those addresses are machine frames belonging to other domains or the hypervisor, so this is an uncontrolled cross-domain memory write.\nA:H - Host writes into foreign machine frames through the bad backing entries can corrupt Xen or other domains' memory, crashing them. 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