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CVE-2022-49556 Not scored

KVM: SVM: Use kzalloc for sev ioctl interfaces to prevent kernel data leak

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.

Exploit probability 0.3%
Published February 26, 2025
Required by Not available
Last source change August 12, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

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Linux Kernel
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03 / CONNECTIONS

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04 / EVIDENCE

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Open Source Vulnerabilities CVE-2022-49556

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.

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05 / REFERENCES

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