vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-39189: linux -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Sep 2, 2022
Added
Aug 21, 2023
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.18.17. Unprivileged guest users can compromise the guest kernel because TLB flush operations are mishandled in certain KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED situations.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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