CVE-2022-0171
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
- Related
- Published
- 2022-08-26T18:15:08Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T20:01:26Z
- Severity
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- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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).
- References
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- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0171
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038940
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=683412ccf61294d727ead4a73d97397396e69a6b
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257