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CVE-2022-1789

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.8)—

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.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (4)

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