CVE-2022-49556

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.02 BB Relevance: 39/100
Published: 2025-02-26 Modified: 2026-11-05 First seen: 2026-11-05 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Interaction Conf. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local
AC: Low
PR: Low
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: High
I: None
A: High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: SVM: Use kzalloc for sev ioctl interfaces to prevent kernel data leak For some sev ioctl interfaces, the length parameter that is passed maybe less than or equal to SEV_FW_BLOB_MAX_SIZE, but larger than the data that PSP firmware returns. In this case, kmalloc will allocate memory that is the size of the input rather than the size of the data. Since PSP firmware doesn't fully overwrite the allocated buffer, these sev ioctl interface may return uninitialized kernel slab memory.

Affected Software (7)

VendorProductVersion
Linux Linux eaf78265a4ab33935d3a0f1407ce4a91aac4d4d5 < 401bef1f95de92c3a8c6eece46e02fa88d7285ee
Linux Linux eaf78265a4ab33935d3a0f1407ce4a91aac4d4d5 < d8fdb4b24097472ff6b3c0559448200d420b1418
Linux Linux eaf78265a4ab33935d3a0f1407ce4a91aac4d4d5 < bbdcc644b59e01e98c68894a9fab42b9687f42b0
Linux Linux eaf78265a4ab33935d3a0f1407ce4a91aac4d4d5 < 57a01725339f9d82b099102ba2751621b1caab93
Linux Linux eaf78265a4ab33935d3a0f1407ce4a91aac4d4d5 < d22d2474e3953996f03528b84b7f52cc26a39403
Linux Linux 5.7
linux linux_kernel 5.7 – 5.10.124

Bug Bounty Relevance

39 / 100
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

7.1 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.27%
Raw Score 0.002750
Percentile 20.0%
Date 2026-11-06

EPSS Trend

2026-11-06
0.00275
2026-11-05
0.00275

Intelligence Sources

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