CVE-2023-53996

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/sev: Make enc_dec_hypercall() accept a size instead of npages enc_dec_hypercall() accepted a page count instead of a size, which forced its callers to round up. As a result, non-page aligned vaddrs caused pages to be spuriously marked as decrypted via the encryption status hypercall, which in turn caused consistent corruption of pages during live migration. Live migration requires accurate encryption status information to avoid migrating pages from the wrong perspective.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba50e7773a99a109a1ea6f753b766a080d3b21cc

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ac3f9c9f1b37edaa7d1a9b908bc79d843955a1a2

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8ae7457e71a320867d868f2622d7c643596e4f43

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6615212d8e131b45bd9705b0d69cc0d2f624666f

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-12-24

Updated: 2025-12-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0001