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NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-devel  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELDEVEL-9434451
  • published15 Mar 2025
  • disclosed25 Mar 2022
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Introduced: 25 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-2153  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

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

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s KVM when attempting to set a SynIC IRQ. This issue makes it possible for a misbehaving VMM to write to SYNIC/STIMER MSRs, causing a NULL pointer dereference. 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.