CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-1789
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-06-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
With shadow paging enabled, the INVPCID instruction results in a call to kvm_mmu_invpcid_gva. If INVPCID is executed with CR0.PG=0, the invlpg callback is not set and the result is a NULL pointer dereference.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.8)
• fedoraproject fedora 34
• fedoraproject fedora 35
• fedoraproject fedora 36
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832397 Not Applicable
- https://francozappa.github.io/about-bias/ Not Applicable
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/647177/ Not Applicable
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H6JP355XFVAB33X4BNO3ERVTURFYEDB7/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IBUOQTNTQ4ZCXHOCNKYIL2ZUIAZ675RD/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KCEAPIVPRTJHKPF2A2HVF5XHD5XJT3MN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5161 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832397 Not Applicable
- https://francozappa.github.io/about-bias/ Not Applicable
- https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/647177/ Not Applicable
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H6JP355XFVAB33X4BNO3ERVTURFYEDB7/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IBUOQTNTQ4ZCXHOCNKYIL2ZUIAZ675RD/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KCEAPIVPRTJHKPF2A2HVF5XHD5XJT3MN/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5161 Third Party Advisory