Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Linux kernel - CVE-2022-39189
Published: October 11, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU68110
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-39189
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Linux Foundation
Affected software:
Linux kernel
Linux kernel
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a guest user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of TLB flush operations in certain KVM_VCPU_PREEMPTED situations in the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel. An attacker with unprivileged access to the guest OS can escalate privileges on the guest.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-39189
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2309
- https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6cd88243c7e03845a450795e134b488fc2afb736
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/6cd88243c7e03845a450795e134b488fc2afb736
- https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.18.17