CVE-2022-1852: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s KVM module, which can lead to a denial of service in the x86_emulate_insn in arch/x86/kvm/emulate.c. This flaw occurs while executing an illegal instruction in guest in the Intel CPU.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 5.19 (fixed in 5.19)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2022-06-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.