CVE-2022-0171
MEDIUMLinux Kernel < 5.18 - Denial of Service via KVM SEV API
Title source: llmDescription
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 (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5257
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0171
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2038940
Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=683412ccf61294d727ead4a73d97397396e69a6b
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0029
EPSS Percentile
20.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-212
CWE-459
Status
published
Products (6)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
debian/debian_linux
11.0
linux/linux_kernel
5.18 (4 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel
< 5.18
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
9.0
Published
Aug 26, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026