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CVE-2022-3344 (GCVE-0-2022-3344)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-24 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-07 14:17
VLAI
Summary
A flaw was found in the KVM's AMD nested virtualization (SVM). A malicious L1 guest could purposely fail to intercept the shutdown of a cooperative nested guest (L2), possibly leading to a page fault and kernel panic in the host (L0).
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-07 14:16 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a Linux kernel Affected: Affected versions <= 6.0.3
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