CVE-2022-45869

A race condition in the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 6.1-rc6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash or host OS memory corruption) when nested virtualisation and the TDP MMU are enabled.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2022-11-30

Last modified

2025-04-24

Weaknesses

CWE-362

Affected products

• Linux Kernel (Linux)

References

• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=47b0c2e4c220f2251fd8dcfbb44479819c715e15