Expected Behavior Violation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-modules-internal  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-KERNELMODULESINTERNAL-3018517
  • published7 Sept 2022
  • disclosed30 May 2022

Introduced: 30 May 2022

CVE-2022-39189  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-440  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-modules-internal package and not the kernel-modules-internal package as distributed by RHEL.

An issue was discovered the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel before 5.18.17. Unprivileged guest users can compromise the guest kernel because TLB flush operations are mishandled in certain KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED situations.