CVE-2022-1263

EPSS 0.4%CWE-476

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in KVM when releasing a vCPU with dirty ring support enabled. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel oops condition that results in a denial of service.

Affected products

n/a · Kernel:KVM

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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1263 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072698 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5593473a1e6c743764b08e3b6071cb43b5cfa6c4 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/07/1