KVM: SVM: Get source vCPUs from source VM for SEV-ES intrahost migration

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-54296",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "KVM: SVM: Get source vCPUs from source VM for SEV-ES intrahost migration",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Get source vCPUs from source VM for SEV-ES intrahost migration Fix a goof where KVM tries to grab source vCPUs from the destination VM when doing intrahost migration. Grabbing the wrong vCPU not only hoses the guest, it also crashes the host due to the VMSA pointer being left NULL. BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe38687000000 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 39 PID: 17143 Comm: sev_migrate_tes Tainted: GO 6.5.0-smp--fff2e47e6c3b-next #151 Hardware name: Google, Inc. Arcadia_IT_80/Arcadia_IT_80, BIOS 34.28.0 07/10/2023 RIP: 0010:__free_pages+0x15/0xd0 RSP: 0018:ffff923fcf6e3c78 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffe38687000000 RCX: 0000000000000100 RDX: 0000000000000100 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffe38687000000 RBP: ffff923fcf6e3c88 R08: ffff923fcafb0000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff83619b90 R12: ffff923fa9540000 R13: 0000000000080007 R14: ffff923f6d35d000 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff929d0d7c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffffe38687000000 CR3: 0000005224c34005 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: sev_free_vcpu+0xcb/0x110 [kvm_amd] svm_vcpu_free+0x75/0xf0 [kvm_amd] kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy+0x36/0x140 [kvm] kvm_destroy_vcpus+0x67/0x100 [kvm] kvm_arch_destroy",
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      "modified": "2026-10-08T02:48:03.127942021Z",
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      "references": [
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        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-54296",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 98260,
  "published_at": "2025-12-30T12:23:33.141+00:00"
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