CVE-2022-0171

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-0171
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0171.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-0171
Downstream
Published
2022-08-26T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-05-08T04:48:10.899056Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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).

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0171.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-459"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
af2d861d4cd2a4da5137f795ee3509e6f944a25b
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "Fixed in kernel 5.18-rc4"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-0171.json"