# CVE-2022-50228: KVM: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0

> A local attacker can trigger a kernel BUG and crash the system by injecting an interrupt via userspace when GIF is cleared.

- **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:** 18 Jun 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** DEBIAN-CVE-2022-50228, GHSA-522h-7c97-5jqc, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-50228

## What is CVE-2022-50228?

CVE-2022-50228 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2025. 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: SVM: Don't BUG if userspace injects an interrupt with GIF=0

Don't BUG/WARN on interrupt injection due to GIF being cleared,
since it's trivial for userspace to force the situation via
KVM_SET_VCPU_EVENTS (even if having at least a WARN there would be correct
for KVM internally generated injections).

  kernel BUG at arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.c:3386!
  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
  CPU: 15 PID: 926 Comm: smm_test Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3+ #264
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  RIP: 0010:svm_inject_irq+0xab/0xb0 [kvm_amd]
  Code: <0f> 0b 0f 1f 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 80 3d ac b3 01 00 00 55 48 89 f5 53
  RSP: 0018:ffffc90000b37d88 EFLAGS: 00010246
  RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88810a234ac0 RCX: 0000000000000006
  RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffc90000b37df7 RDI: ffff88810a234ac0
  RBP: ffffc90000b37df7 R08: ffff88810a1fa410 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
  R13: ffff888109571000 R14: ffff88810a234ac0 R15: 0000000000000000
  FS:  0000000001821380(0000) GS:ffff88846fdc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 00007f74fc550008 CR3: 000000010a6fe000 CR4: 0000000000350ea0
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   inject_pending_event+0x2f7/0x4c0 [kvm]
   kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x791/0x17a0 [kvm]
   kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x26d/0x650 [kvm]
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x82/0xb0
   do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
   </TASK>

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-50228?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-50228?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2022-50228 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-50228 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2013-6282](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-6282/): Linux Kernel Improper Input Validation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2022-0185](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0185/): Linux Kernel Heap-Based Buffer Overflow (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [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-2022-50228 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-50228 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 18 Jun 2025. 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-2022-50228 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-2022-50228/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50228/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50228
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-50228
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-50228

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-50228/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.