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CVE-2022-0171

Published: Aug 26, 2022

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

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Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The existing KVM SEV API has a vulnerability that allows a non-root (host) user-level application to crash the host kernel by creating a confidential guest VM instance in AMD CPU that supports Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV).

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	kernel	affected `Fixed in kernel 5.18-rc4`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038940

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=683412ccf61294d727ead4a73d97397396e69a6b

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0171

vendor-advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20221101 [SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update

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