CVE-2022-49556

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Use kzalloc for sev ioctl interfaces to prevent kernel data leak For some sev ioctl interfaces, the length parameter that is passed maybe less than or equal to SEV_FW_BLOB_MAX_SIZE, but larger than the data that PSP firmware returns. In this case, kmalloc will allocate memory that is the size of the input rather than the size of the data. Since PSP firmware doesn't fully overwrite the allocated buffer, these sev ioctl interface may return uninitialized kernel slab memory.

CVSS v3 7.1 HIGH

7.1^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.2

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/401bef1f95de92c3a8c6eece46e02fa88d7285ee	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57a01725339f9d82b099102ba2751621b1caab93	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bbdcc644b59e01e98c68894a9fab42b9687f42b0	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d22d2474e3953996f03528b84b7f52cc26a39403	Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d8fdb4b24097472ff6b3c0559448200d420b1418	Patch

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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History

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Information

Published : 2025-02-26 07:01

Updated : 2026-01-22 20:55

NVD link : CVE-2022-49556

Mitre link : CVE-2022-49556

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-49556

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Products Affected

linux

linux_kernel

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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