Security Advisory

CVE-2022-1263

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-08-31 15:33:00
Last updated 2024-08-02 23:55:24
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.