CVE-2022-0171
CVE-2022-0171: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium4.7
Medium [CVE-2022-0171] flaw was found in the Linux kernel
CVE-2022-0171Source published Source updated
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). Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 currently provides SEV as a Technology Preview. Using SEV in a production environment is discouraged. For additional details please see and. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 4.7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). Weakness: CWE-212. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE. Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: kernel-rt.
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat package: kernel-rt
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
- Mitigation guidance
- No mitigation guidance extracted; consult the source.
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