In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/virtio: use the DMA API for resource backing on Xen On a Xen PV domain page addresses bear no relation to the real machine addresses the host would have to use to reach it. virtio_ring.c handles this correctly, vring_use_map_api() returns true for any xen_domain() regardless of VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM. virtio-gpu makes the same decision independently, but its copy looks only at the feature bit: bool use_dma_api = !virtio_has_dma_quirk(vgdev->vdev); QEMU does not set iommu_platform on virtio-vga by default, so VIRTIO_F_ACCESS_PLATFORM is not negotiated, use_dma_api is false, and virtio_gpu_object_shmem_init() describes the framebuffer's backing pages to the host with sg_phys(). Those are guest-physical addresses. In a PV domain they resolve, on the host side, to pages belonging to some other domain, so the host scans out unrelated memory. Move the decision into virtio_gpu_use_dma_api() and give it the xen_domain() check, like vring_use_map_api() has. This additionally enables the dma_sync_sgtable_for_device() calls in virtgpu_vq.c, which are required for correctness whenever swiotlb is in play. Reproduced with a Xen 4.21 PV dom0 nested inside QEMU 8.2 with virtio-vga, on both a distro 6.8 kernel and 6.18 LTS. A PVH dom0 works fine and doesn't need this fix because it is identity-mapped, only PV dom0s are affected.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/455184dbe9652d01470d3c5cf5edd09a7a673a99 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a736d2f9d0c6e6217fe7532bc4c50ceca71db78 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93c557e947ef0040004b1ac6a1c1265d79a957e1 Patch
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 3
- References+2 references (now 5)NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:21
- StatusAnalyzed → ModifiedNVD modified 2026-10-21 13:21
- First seenCVSS 7.8 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-14 17:23
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:7.3:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/32e999ccf5f6453b3b4df8264ff1b03c6720292f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f130cc6826fabf50e01fe8e4ff3ed1fcae50d36
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/455184dbe9652d01470d3c5cf5edd09a7a673a99 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a736d2f9d0c6e6217fe7532bc4c50ceca71db78 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/93c557e947ef0040004b1ac6a1c1265d79a957e1 Patch