CVE-2022-0171 — Vulnerability intelligence
linux — linux kernel
Published:
- CVSS
- 5.5
- CISA KEV
- Not listed; not proof of no exploitation
Original source text (not a translation)
A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The existing KVM SEV API has a vulnerability that allows 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).