CVE-2022-45869

Medium

Description

A race condition in the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 6.1-rc6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash or host OS memory corruption) when nested virtualisation and the TDP MMU are enabled.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux Kernel
PublishedNov 30, 2022
First seenNov 30, 2022

How to fix

Update
  • linux linux_kernel6.1 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
linux linux_kernelv < 6.1, 6.16.1

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