🛡️ CVE-2022-1263
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-476 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-476
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-08-31
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
linux-kernel

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