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        "cveId": "CVE-2026-98002",
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        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-09-25T10:19:56.068Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-09-25T10:23:29.929Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-10-19T09:12:07.970Z"
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                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\niommu/amd: Fix ineffective error check in nested domain allocation\n\namd_iommu_pdom_id_alloc() returns an int: a domain ID on success, or the\nnegative errno from ida_alloc_range() when the ID space is exhausted or\nmemory is short.  amd_iommu_alloc_domain_nested() stores that return value\nin gdom_info->hdom_id, which is a u32, and only then tests it:\n\n\tgdom_info->hdom_id = amd_iommu_pdom_id_alloc();\n\tif (gdom_info->hdom_id <= 0) {\n\nThe assignment discards the sign, so -ENOSPC becomes 0xffffffe4 and the\ntest never fires.  The nested domain is then set up with a host domain ID\nthat was never allocated, instead of the allocation failing with -ENOSPC.\n\nKeep the value in an int, test it there, and store it only once it is\nknown to be valid, which is what the other amd_iommu_pdom_id_alloc()\ncallers already do."
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                        "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                        "baseScore": 7.8,
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                            "value": "AV:L - The patched function amd_iommu_alloc_domain_nested() is reached only via the IOMMU_HWPT_ALLOC ioctl on a local iommufd fd (/dev/iommu) against an AMD vIOMMU (iommufd_hwpt_alloc -> viommu->ops->alloc_domain_nested); no remote protocol carries the input.\nAC:H - The failure path needs ida_alloc_range() in amd_iommu_pdom_id_alloc() to fail: either all 65535 global host domain IDs are in use with a victim domain holding 0xffe4, which lowest-first allocation doesn't let the attacker arrange on demand, or a GFP_ATOMIC failure the attacker cannot force.\nPR:L - Needs a VMM-style user that has been given /dev/iommu (0660) and a bound VFIO device cdev to create a vIOMMU and nested HWPTs; that is delegated device access, not full init-namespace root.\nUI:N - The attacker allocates the nested HWPTs and attaches the device themselves; nobody else has to do anything.\nS:C - The unallocated hdom_id (truncated to 0xffe4/0xfff4 by DTE_DOMID_MASK) is written into the DTE by set_dte_nested(), so the nested device shares IOTLB tags with another IOMMU domain, breaking the DMA isolation boundary between domains.\nC:H - Because the DomID is aliased, the device's DMA can hit IOTLB translations cached for the other domain and read memory belonging to that domain.\nI:H - The same aliased IOTLB entries let the device's DMA writes land in the other domain's pages, corrupting memory outside the nested domain.\nA:H - Stray DMA writes into another domain's memory, plus invalidations for the parent S2 hitting the shared hdom_id, can corrupt host or guest memory used by other devices and bring them down."
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