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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Sep 23, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 23, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

KVM: SVM: fix panic on out-of-bounds guest IRQ

As guest_irq is coming from KVM_IRQFD API call, it may trigger
crash in svm_update_pi_irte() due to out-of-bounds:

crash> bt
PID: 22218 TASK: ffff951a6ad74980 CPU: 73 COMMAND: "vcpu8"
#0 [ffffb1ba6707fa40] machine_kexec at ffffffff8565b397
#1 [ffffb1ba6707fa90] __crash_kexec at ffffffff85788a6d
#2 [ffffb1ba6707fb58] crash_kexec at ffffffff8578995d
#3 [ffffb1ba6707fb70] oops_end at ffffffff85623c0d
#4 [ffffb1ba6707fb90] no_context at ffffffff856692c9
#5 [ffffb1ba6707fbf8] exc_page_fault at ffffffff85f95b51
#6 [ffffb1ba6707fc50] asm_exc_page_fault at ffffffff86000ace
[exception RIP: svm_update_pi_irte+227]
RIP: ffffffffc0761b53 RSP: ffffb1ba6707fd08 RFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: ffffb1ba6707fd78 RBX: ffffb1ba66d91000 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 00003c803f63f1c0 RSI: 000000000000019a RDI: ffffb1ba66db2ab8
RBP: 000000000000019a R8: 0000000000000040 R9: ffff94ca41b82200
R10: ffffffffffffffcf R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffffffffffffffcf R15: 000000000000005f
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#7 [ffffb1ba6707fdb8] kvm_irq_routing_update at ffffffffc09f19a1 [kvm]
#8 [ffffb1ba6707fde0] kvm_set_irq_routing at ffffffffc09f2133 [kvm]
#9 [ffffb1ba6707fe18] kvm_vm_ioctl at ffffffffc09ef544 [kvm]
RIP: 00007f143c36488b RSP: 00007f143a4e04b8 RFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f05780041d0 RCX: 00007f143c36488b
RDX: 00007f05780041d0 RSI: 000000004008ae6a RDI: 0000000000000020
RBP: 00000000000004e8 R8: 0000000000000008 R9: 00007f05780041e0
R10: 00007f0578004560 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000004e0
R13: 000000000000001a R14: 00007f1424001c60 R15: 00007f0578003bc0
ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 CS: 0033 SS: 002b

Vmx have been fix this in commit 3a8b0677fc61 (KVM: VMX: Do not BUG() on
out-of-bounds guest IRQ), so we can just copy source from that to fix
this.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 26, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 23, 2025
Last updated Sep 23, 2025

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

Reachable Assertion

The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2022-49154

GHSA ID

GHSA-pmg5-cqg9-w979

Source code

No known source code

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