UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1789

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1789

    Published: 2 Jun 2022Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2022-1789
    Aliases:
    USN-5514-1
    USN-5518-1
    USN-5529-1

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-1789, https://git.kernel.org/linus/9f46c187e2e680ecd9de7983e4d081c3391acc76, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/05/25/2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5514-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5529-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5518-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5539-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5564-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-1789

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-hwe-edge

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux-hwe-edge?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    4.8.0-28.30~16.04.1
    4.8.0-30.32~16.04.1
    4.8.0-32.34~16.04.1
    4.8.0-34.36~16.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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