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Message-ID: <20260331040317.GA31713@openwall.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:03:17 +0200
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: Sandipan Roy <saroy@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
denis.pilipchuk@...cle.com, bkov@...zon.com, fgriffo@...zon.com,
Yogesh Mittal <ymittal@...hat.com>,
Mauro Matteo Cascella <mcascell@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: KVM shadow EPT stale rmap use-after-free
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 30, 2026 at 11:34:02AM +0530, Sandipan Roy wrote:
> Alexander Bulekov(bkov@...zon.com) and Fred Griffoul (fgriffo@...zon.com)
> reported a use-after-free in KVM's shadow paging code.
Thank you all for finding and handling this issue, including bringing it
to oss-security.
Sandipan Roy first brought this to linux-distros on March 10, writing:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 04:03:41PM +0530, Sandipan Roy wrote:
> The reporters and maintainers have agreed on an embargo until Sunday
> March 29, 2026, 16:00 UTC. The Linux kernel security team did not object
> to extending the embargo period past the documented limit of 14 calendar
> days
to which I replied:
On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 06:04:33PM +0100, Solar Designer wrote:
> We have a problem here: we also have a 14 days maximum on linux-distros,
> and no one asked us whether we'd be willing to make an exception. As
> linux-distros list admin, if asked in advance, I would object to this.
> More precisely, I'd have asked to delay notification to linux-distros
> until no more than 14 days remain until embargo end.
>
> But what's done, is done.
So here I am acknowledging the policy violation and explaining how it
happened and why I let it happen. With a precise planned public
disclosure date/time only moderately in excess of the usual maximum, and
with many other stakeholders involved, I felt it would be
counter-productive to insist on public disclosure after at most 14 days
per the policy.
Looking at distros list statistics, we previously let the 14 days be
exceeded to a similar extent a year ago, in March 2025. Here's my
explanation of that previous occasion (also related to Linux kernel):
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/04/01/6
Here are the statistics (until end of February - I'll add March likely
in mid-April like I usually do):
https://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros/stats
The maximum we had since mid-2023 when Linux Foundation sponsorship
started is a little over 20 days, so just like we had this time. This
maximum was reached 3 times in these almost 4 years. The rest of cases
are at most 15.5 days (on one occasion; the rest are below 15). Prior
to mid-2023, things were occasionally a lot worse as I wasn't keeping
track of list statistics like I do now.
Alexander
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