CVE-2022-49422 Affecting kernel-rt-kvm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELRTKVM-9090960
  • published5 Mar 2025
  • disclosed26 Feb 2025

Introduced: 26 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2022-49422  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 kernel-rt-kvm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-rt-kvm package and not the kernel-rt-kvm package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: idxd: Fix the error handling path in idxd_cdev_register()

If a call to alloc_chrdev_region() fails, the already allocated resources are leaking.

Add the needed error handling path to fix the leak.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1