Security Advisory

CVE-2022-0171

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-08-26 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-02 23:18:41
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

Description

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).