vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2022-1263: NULL pointer dereference in kvm_dirty_ring_push in virt/kvm/dirty_ring.c (Multiple Advisories)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 31, 2022 | May 8, 2023 | Mar 17, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 31, 2022
Added
May 8, 2023
Modified
Mar 17, 2025
Description
A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in KVM when releasing a vCPU with dirty ring support enabled. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel oops condition that results in a denial of service.
Solution(s)
redhat-upgrade-kernelredhat-upgrade-kernel-rt

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