NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-devel  (opens in a new tab)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-9493241
  • published21 Mar 2025
  • disclosed25 May 2022

Introduced: 25 May 2022

CVE-2022-1789  (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.

With shadow paging enabled, the INVPCID instruction results in a call to kvm_mmu_invpcid_gva. If INVPCID is executed with CR0.PG=0, the invlpg callback is not set and the result is a NULL pointer dereference.