CVE-2022-48793

medium

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration Turns out that due to review feedback and/or rebases I accidentally moved the call to nested_svm_load_cr3 to be too early, before the NPT is enabled, which is very wrong to do. KVM can't even access guest memory at that point as nested NPT is needed for that, and of course it won't initialize the walk_mmu, which is main issue the patch was addressing. Fix this for real.

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e1779c2714c3023e4629825762bcbc43a3b943df

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74b426bea4f7e3b081add2b88d4fba16d3af7ab6

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/352193edda48e08e8824a7ece09aec830a603cfe

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-07-16

Updated: 2024-08-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium