Incomplete Cleanup Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,5.18-rc4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-2994367
  • published28 Aug 2022
  • disclosed28 Aug 2022
  • creditMingwei Zhang (Google)

Introduced: 28 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-0171  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-459  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 5.18-rc4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Incomplete Cleanup via the existing KVM SEV API, allowing a non-root (host) user-level application to crash the host kernel by creating a confidential guest VM instance in AMD CPU that supports Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV).

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1