CVE-2022-45869 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2022-45869?

CVE-2022-45869 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 30 Nov 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A race condition in the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 6.1-rc6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash or host OS memory corruption) when nested virtualisation and the TDP MMU are enabled.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-45869?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-45869?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2022-45869 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-45869 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2013-6282 Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0185 Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2013-2094 Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Exploited High 8.4
• CVE-2026-53362 Linux Kernel Unspecified Exploited High 7.8

All Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as AZL-11574, DEBIAN-CVE-2022-45869, GHSA-p786-v75j-m944, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-45869.