CVE-2022-1789

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    CVE-2022-1789

    Published: 2 Jun 2022Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: With shadow paging enabled, the INVPCID instruction results in a call to kvm_mmu_invpcid_gva. If INVPCID is executed with CR0.PG=0, the invlpg callback is not set and the result is a NULL pointer dereference.

    References: https://francozappa.github.io/about-bias/, https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/647177/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/H6JP355XFVAB33X4BNO3ERVTURFYEDB7/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IBUOQTNTQ4ZCXHOCNKYIL2ZUIAZ675RD/, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KCEAPIVPRTJHKPF2A2HVF5XHD5XJT3MN/, https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5161, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1832397

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