Vulnerability in Linux
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.
EPSS: 0.003 (19.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Linux — versions eaf78265a4ab33935d3a0f1407ce4a91aac4d4d5, 5.7, 0
- Linux Linux_kernel
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-49556?
- CVE-2022-49556 is a high-severity vulnerability in Linux. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2025-02-26.
- How severe is CVE-2022-49556?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.