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GHSA-GFJ7-8HQ4-G63X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-02 18:31 – Updated: 2025-11-12 18:31

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: VMX: Do all initialization before exposing /dev/kvm to userspace

Call kvm_init() only after all setup is complete, as kvm_init() exposes /dev/kvm to userspace and thus allows userspace to create VMs (and call other ioctls). E.g. KVM will encounter a NULL pointer when attempting to add a vCPU to the per-CPU loaded_vmcss_on_cpu list if userspace is able to create a VM before vmx_init() configures said list.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP CPU: 6 PID: 1143 Comm: stable Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7+ #988 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs+0x68/0x230 [kvm_intel] vmx_vcpu_load+0x16/0x60 [kvm_intel] kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x32/0x1f0 [kvm] vcpu_load+0x2f/0x40 [kvm] kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x231/0x310 [kvm] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x79f/0xe10 [kvm] ? handle_mm_fault+0xb1/0x220 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x80/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x50 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 RIP: 0033:0x7f5a6b05743b Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap kvm_intel(+) kvm irqbypass

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "published": "2025-05-02T18:31:32Z",
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CVE-2022-49932 (GCVE-0-2022-49932)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-02 15:54 – Updated: 2025-05-04 08:49

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: VMX: Do _all_ initialization before exposing /dev/kvm to userspace Call kvm_init() only after _all_ setup is complete, as kvm_init() exposes /dev/kvm to userspace and thus allows userspace to create VMs (and call other ioctls). E.g. KVM will encounter a NULL pointer when attempting to add a vCPU to the per-CPU loaded_vmcss_on_cpu list if userspace is able to create a VM before vmx_init() configures said list. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP CPU: 6 PID: 1143 Comm: stable Not tainted 6.0.0-rc7+ #988 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 RIP: 0010:vmx_vcpu_load_vmcs+0x68/0x230 [kvm_intel] <TASK> vmx_vcpu_load+0x16/0x60 [kvm_intel] kvm_arch_vcpu_load+0x32/0x1f0 [kvm] vcpu_load+0x2f/0x40 [kvm] kvm_arch_vcpu_create+0x231/0x310 [kvm] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x79f/0xe10 [kvm] ? handle_mm_fault+0xb1/0x220 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x80/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x50 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0 RIP: 0033:0x7f5a6b05743b </TASK> Modules linked in: vhost_net vhost vhost_iotlb tap kvm_intel(+) kvm irqbypass

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e136e969d268b9b89…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e28533c08023c4b31…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e32b120071ea114ef…

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Linux

Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < e136e969d268b9b89329c816c002e53f60e82985 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < e28533c08023c4b319b7f2cd77f3f7c9204eb517 (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < e32b120071ea114efc0b4ddd439547750b85f618 (git)

Linux

Unaffected: 6.1.20 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.2.7 , ≤ 6.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.3 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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CVE-2022-49932 (GCVE-0-2022-49932)

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