CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-1852

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2022-06-30 Modified 2026-10-14 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-06-30
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
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s KVM module, which can lead to a denial of service in the x86_emulate_insn in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c. This flaw occurs while executing an illegal instruction in guest in the Intel CPU.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 5.19) • redhat enterprise linux 8.0 • redhat enterprise linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References