CVE-2022-45869: Linux Kernel

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

A race condition in the x86 KVM subsystem in the Linux kernel through 6.1-rc6 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash or host OS memory corruption) when nested virtualisation and the TDP MMU are enabled.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: before 6.1 (fixed in 6.1); version 6.1 only

Published 2022-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.