CVE-2023-53996

CVE-2023-53996

Critical · published December 24, 2025

CVSS v3.1
9.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
9.3 · CRITICAL
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00110 · 1.2th percentile
Published
2025-12-24T16:15Z
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 DEC 10:55Z
    x86/sev: Make enc_dec_hypercall() accept a size instead of npages
    cvelistv5