CVE-2022-0171

Summary

CVECVE-2022-0171
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-08-26 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-07-21 16:54:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-212

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel All All All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 - All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 rc1 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 rc2 All All
Operating System Linux Linux Kernel 5.18 rc3 All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5257-1 linux DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3173-1] linux-5.10 security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
2038940 – (CVE-2022-0171) CVE-2022-0171 kernel: KVM: cache incoherence issue in SEV API may lead to kernel crash MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree MISC git.kernel.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181145 Debian Security Update for linux (DSA 5257-1)
  • 181190 Debian Security Update for linux-5.10 (DLA 3173-1)
  • 183344 Debian Security Update for linux (CVE-2022-0171)
  • 199087 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5792-1)
  • 199094 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel Vulnerabilities (USN-5792-2)
  • 199179 Ubuntu Security Notification for Linux kernel (GKE) Vulnerabilities (USN-5877-1)
  • 354100 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2022-009
  • 354101 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2KERNEL-5.10-2022-021
  • 354439 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2022-2022-150
  • 354468 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2022-2022-185
  • 354542 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS-2022-185
  • 355199 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for kernel : ALAS2023-2023-070
  • 377891 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0002)
  • 378468 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-20230042)
  • 378512 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for cloud-kernel (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0042)
  • 6140177 AWS Bottlerocket Security Update for kernel (GHSA-5qr2-h2m2-hp3p)
  • 672003 EulerOS Security Update for kernel (EulerOS-SA-2022-2134)
  • 903743 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10776)
  • 903795 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10759)
  • 904265 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10759-1)
  • 904371 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10776-1)
  • 905875 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10776-2)
  • 906326 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for kernel (10759-2)
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