vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2022-0171: kernel: KVM: cache incoherence issue in SEV API may lead to kernel crash
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 26, 2022 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 26, 2022
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025
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).
Solution
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
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