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CVE-2022-1158

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2022-08-05 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

A flaw was found in KVM. When updating a guest's page table entry, vm_pgoff was improperly used as the offset to get the page's pfn. As vaddr and vm_pgoff are controllable by user-mode processes, this flaw allows unprivileged local users on the host to write outside the userspace region and potentially corrupt the kernel, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Enterprise LinuxLinux Linux KernelFedoraproject Fedora

Weakness Type

CWE-416, CWE-416

References