5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2023-22998

Published: 28/02/2023 Updated: 03/05/2023
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

In the Linux kernel prior to 6.0.3, drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_object.c misinterprets the drm_gem_shmem_get_sg_table return value (expects it to be NULL in the error case, whereas it is actually an error pointer).

Vulnerability Trend

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linux linux kernel

Vendor Advisories

A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1 due to L1 thinking it doesn't need retpolines or IBPB after running L2 due to KVM (L0) advertising eIBRS support to L1 An attacker at L2 with code execution can execute code on an indirect branch on the ...