CVE-2022-0516 Privilege escalation in kernel

What is CVE-2022-0516?

CVE-2022-0516 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 8 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability was found in kvm_s390_guest_sida_op in the arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c function in KVM for s390 in the Linux kernel. This flaw allows a local attacker with a normal user privilege to obtain unauthorized memory write access. This flaw affects Linux kernel versions prior to 5.17-rc4.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0516?

It affects 23 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Netapp H300e Firmware, Netapp H300s Firmware, Netapp H410c Firmware and 17 more.

How do I fix CVE-2022-0516?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-0516 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0516 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-8997, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0516, GHSA-j8f5-q8pj-2j78, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0516.