A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in KVM when releasing a vCPU with dirty ring support enabled. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls, causing a kernel oops condition that results in a denial of service.
CVE-2022-1263
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2022-09-01. NVD baseline CVSS 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 5.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- —
- EPSS
- 34.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 31, 2022
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (8)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1263
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072698
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5593473a1e6c743764b08e3b6071cb43b5cfa6c4
- secalert@redhathttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/07/1
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1263
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2072698
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5593473a1e6c743764b08e3b6071cb43b5cfa6c4
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/07/1
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-1263(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(5)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | linux-image-lowlatency-64k-hwe-20.04 (5.15.0.37.37) @ jammy | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| redhat | kernel-rt-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.rt21.168.el9_1 | 2022-11-15 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1 | 2022-11-15 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-rt-0:4.18.0-425.3.1.rt7.213.el8 | 2022-11-08 | redhat |
| redhat | kernel-0:4.18.0-425.3.1.el8 | 2022-11-08 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(4)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Microsoft MSRCCVE-2022-12632022-09-08
A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in KVM when releasing a vCPU with dirty ring support enabled. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker on the host to issue specific ioctl calls causing a kernel oops condition that results in a denial of service.
- Red HatRHSA-2022:7444MODERATE2022-04-07
RHSA-2022:7444 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:7933MODERATE2022-04-07
RHSA-2022:7933 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-5469-1MEDIUM
Linux kernel vulnerabilities
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