CVE-2022-49154CWE-617

CVE-2022-49154

High · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
19.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: SVM: fix panic on out-of-bounds guest IRQ

As guest_irq is coming from KVM_IRQFD API call, it may trigger

crash in svm_update_pi_irte() due to out-of-bounds:

crash> bt

PID: 22218 TASK: ffff951a6ad74980 CPU: 73 COMMAND: "vcpu8"

#0 [ffffb1ba6707fa40] machine_kexec at ffffffff8565b397

#1 [ffffb1ba6707fa90] __crash_kexec at ffffffff85788a6d

#2 [ffffb1ba6707fb58] crash_kexec at ffffffff8578995d

#3 [ffffb1ba6707fb70] oops_end at ffffffff85623c0d

#4 [ffffb1ba6707fb90] no_context at ffffffff856692c9

#5 [ffffb1ba6707fbf8] exc_page_fault at ffffffff85f95b51

#6 [ffffb1ba6707fc50] asm_exc_page_fault at ffffffff86000ace

[exception RIP: svm_update_pi_irte+227]

RIP: ffffffffc0761b53 RSP: ffffb1ba6707fd08 RFLAGS: 00010086

RAX: ffffb1ba6707fd78 RBX: ffffb1ba66d91000 RCX: 0000000000000001

RDX: 00003c803f63f1c0 RSI: 000000000000019a RDI: ffffb1ba66db2ab8

RBP: 000000000000019a R8: 0000000000000040 R9: ffff94ca41b82200

R10: ffffffffffffffcf R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001

R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffffffffffcf R15: 000000000000005f

ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018

#7 [ffffb1ba6707fdb8] kvm_irq_routing_update at ffffffffc09f19a1 [kvm]

#8 [ffffb1ba6707fde0] kvm_set_irq_routing at ffffffffc09f2133 [kvm]

#9 [ffffb1ba6707fe18] kvm_vm_ioctl at ffffffffc09ef544 [kvm]

RIP: 00007f143c36488b RSP: 00007f143a4e04b8 RFLAGS: 00000246

RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f05780041d0 RCX: 00007f143c36488b

RDX: 00007f05780041d0 RSI: 000000004008ae6a RDI: 0000000000000020

RBP: 00000000000004e8 R8: 0000000000000008 R9: 00007f05780041e0

R10: 00007f0578004560 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000004e0

R13: 000000000000001a R14: 00007f1424001c60 R15: 00007f0578003bc0

ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 CS: 0033 SS: 002b

Vmx have been fix this in commit 3a8b0677fc61 (KVM: VMX: Do not BUG() on

out-of-bounds guest IRQ), so we can just copy source from that to fix

this.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00283 · 19.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-617 · Reachable Assertion
Published
2025-02-26T12:00Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.9, < 5.10.1105.10.110
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.11, < 5.15.335.15.33
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.16, < 5.16.195.16.19
linux/linux_kernel≥ 5.17, < 5.17.25.17.2
References (5)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:55Z
    KVM: SVM: fix panic on out-of-bounds guest IRQ
    cvelistv5