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).
{
"cna_assigner": "redhat",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-459"
],
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0171.json"
}{
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"last_affected": "Fixed in kernel 5.18-rc4"
}
]
}