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HistoryJul 16, 2024 - 11:43 a.m.

CVE-2022-48793 KVM: x86: nSVM: fix potential NULL derefernce on nested migration

2024-07-1611:43:48
Linux
github.com
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linux kernel
kvm
x86
nsvm
null dereference
nested migration

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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.

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

Low

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial