CVE-2026-99177

Status: Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SEV: Fix page dirtying in sev_gmem_post_populate() set_page_dirty() requires that the caller holds some kind of lock to ensure that the page's mapping does not concurrently go away. That is not the case for a random page we got from get_user_pages_fast(), so use set_page_dirty_lock(). [sean: tag for stable]

Published
October 28, 2026 11:17 AM
Last Modified
October 28, 2026 11:17 AM
Source
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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