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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 31, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-2153

CVE-2022-2153

Description

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s KVM when attempting to set a SynIC IRQ. This issue makes it possible for a misbehaving VMM to write to SYNIC/STIMER MSRs, causing a NULL pointer dereference. 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.

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