vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2022-1789: ELSA-2023-2458: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
05/25/2022
Added
07/22/2024
Modified
12/06/2024

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.
A flaw was found in KVM. With shadow paging enabled if INVPCID is executed with CR0.PG=0, the invlpg callback is not set, and the result is a NULL pointer dereference. This flaw allows a guest user to cause a kernel oops condition on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

Solution

oracle-linux-upgrade-kernel
Title
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