CVE-2022-48793
MEDIUMLinux Kernel 5.13-5.15.25, 5.16-5.16.11 - NULL Pointer Dereference in nSVM Nested Migration
Title source: llmDescription
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration Turns out that due to review feedback and/or rebases I accidentally moved the call to nested_svm_load_cr3 to be too early, before the NPT is enabled, which is very wrong to do. KVM can't even access guest memory at that point as nested NPT is needed for that, and of course it won't initialize the walk_mmu, which is main issue the patch was addressing. Fix this for real.
References (3)
Core 3
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0024
EPSS Percentile
14.8%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-476
Status
published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel
5.13.0 - 5.15.25linux
linux/Kernel
5.16.0 - 5.16.11linux
Linux/Linux
< 5.13
Linux/Linux
232f75d3b4b5456de6f0b671aa86345d62de1473 - 352193edda48e08e8824a7ece09aec830a603cfe
Linux/Linux
232f75d3b4b5456de6f0b671aa86345d62de1473 - 74b426bea4f7e3b081add2b88d4fba16d3af7ab6
Linux/Linux
232f75d3b4b5456de6f0b671aa86345d62de1473 - e1779c2714c3023e4629825762bcbc43a3b943df
Linux/Linux
5.13
Linux/Linux
5.15.25 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux
5.16.11 - 5.16.*
Linux/Linux
5.17
... and 1 more
Published
Jul 16, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026