cve-2022-1263
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-31 15:33
Modified
2024-08-02 23:55
Severity ?
Summary
A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in KVM when releasing a vCPU with dirty ring support enabled. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel oops condition that results in a denial of service.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1263Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072698Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5593473a1e6c743764b08e3b6071cb43b5cfa6c4Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/07/1Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/aKernel:KVM
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