CVE-2022-50851 — Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in Linux
Severity
6.6MEDIUM
No vectorEPSS
0.0%
top 93.24%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 30
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vhost_vdpa: fix the crash in unmap a large memory
While testing in vIOMMU, sometimes Guest will unmap very large memory,
which will cause the crash. To fix this, add a new function
vhost_vdpa_general_unmap(). This function will only unmap the memory
that saved in iotlb.
Call Trace:
[ 647.820144] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 647.820848] kernel BUG at drivers/iommu/intel/iommu.c:1174!
[ 647.821486] invalid opcode: 000…
Affected Packages4 packages
▶CVEListV5linux/linux4c8cf31885f69e86be0b5b9e6677a26797365e1d — 26b7400c89b81e2f6de4f224ba1fdf06f293de31+3
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-59wc-rrrg-chg9: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vhost_vdpa: fix the crash in unmap a large memory
While testing in vIOMMU, somet↗2025-12-30
OSV▶
CVE-2022-50851: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost_vdpa: fix the crash in unmap a large memory While testing in vIOMMU, sometim↗2025-12-30