CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-0171
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-26
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-212, CWE-459
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).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.18)
• linux linux kernel 5.18
• redhat enterprise linux 8.0
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0171 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038940 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=683412ccf61294d727ead4a73d97397396e69a6b Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0171 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038940 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=683412ccf61294d727ead4a73d97397396e69a6b Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257 Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html cert-portal.siemens.com