# CVE-2022-48765: KVM: LAPIC: Also cancel preemption timer during SET_LAPIC

> A guest VM reboot can trigger a kernel warning and potential instability in KVM due to improper preemption timer cancellation during LAPIC state synchronization.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 20 Jun 2024
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48765, GHSA-6hw2-3r9f-pmmj, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-11-CVE-2022-48765, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48765

## What is CVE-2022-48765?

CVE-2022-48765 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 20 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: LAPIC: Also cancel preemption timer during SET_LAPIC

The below warning is splatting during guest reboot.

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1931 at arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:10322 kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x874/0x880 [kvm]
  CPU: 0 PID: 1931 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Tainted: G          I       5.17.0-rc1+ #5
  RIP: 0010:kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x874/0x880 [kvm]
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x279/0x710 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x83/0xb0
   do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
  RIP: 0033:0x7fd39797350b

This can be triggered by not exposing tsc-deadline mode and doing a reboot in
the guest. The lapic_shutdown() function which is called in sys_reboot path
will not disarm the flying timer, it just masks LVTT. lapic_shutdown() clears
APIC state w/ LVT_MASKED and timer-mode bit is 0, this can trigger timer-mode
switch between tsc-deadline and oneshot/periodic, which can result in preemption
timer be cancelled in apic_update_lvtt(). However, We can't depend on this when
not exposing tsc-deadline mode and oneshot/periodic modes emulated by preemption
timer. Qemu will synchronise states around reset, let's cancel preemption timer
under KVM_SET_LAPIC.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48765?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-48765?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-48765 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48765 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-48765 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-48765 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 20 Jun 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48765 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48765/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48765/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48765
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48765
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-48765

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48765/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.