CVE-2022-1852

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s KVM module, which can lead to a denial of service in the x86_emulate_insn in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c. This flaw occurs while executing an illegal instruction in guest in the Intel CPU.

Database specific

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    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-476"
    ],
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}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/torvalds/linux

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Events

Introduced

f2906aa863381afb0015a9eb7fefad885d4e5a56

Fixed

fee060cd52d69c114b62d1a2948ea9648b5131f9

Database specific

Show details

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Affected versions

kernel 5.*

kernel 5.19 rc1

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-1852.json"

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vanir_signatures_modified

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