# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-48764"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-06-20T11:13:41.170Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T18:46:29.012Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48764"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-48764.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-48764"
title: "KVM: x86: Free kvm_cpuid_entry2 array on post-KVM_RUN KVM_SET_CPUID{,2}"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86: Free kvm_cpuid_entry2 array on post-KVM_RUN KVM_SET_CPUID{,2}\n\nFree the \"struct kvm_cpuid_entry2\" array on successful post-KVM_RUN\nKVM_SET_CPUID{,2} to fix a memory leak, the callers of kvm_set_cpuid()\nfree the array only on failure.\n\n BUG: memory leak\n unreferenced object 0xffff88810963a800 (size 2048):\n  comm \"syz-executor025\", pid 3610, jiffies 4294944928 (age 8.080s)\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0d 00 00 00  ................\n    47 65 6e 75 6e 74 65 6c 69 6e 65 49 00 00 00 00  GenuntelineI....\n  backtrace:\n    [\u003cffffffff814948ee\u003e] kmalloc_node include/linux/slab.h:604 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff814948ee\u003e] kvmalloc_node+0x3e/0x100 mm/util.c:580\n    [\u003cffffffff814950f2\u003e] kvmalloc include/linux/slab.h:732 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff814950f2\u003e] vmemdup_user+0x22/0x100 mm/util.c:199\n    [\u003cffffffff8109f5ff\u003e] kvm_vcpu_ioctl_set_cpuid2+0x8f/0xf0 arch/x86/kvm/cpuid.c:423\n    [\u003cffffffff810711b9\u003e] kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl+0xb99/0x1e60 arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:5251\n    [\u003cffffffff8103e92d\u003e] kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x4ad/0x950 arch/x86/kvm/../../../virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4066\n    [\u003cffffffff815afacc\u003e] vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff815afacc\u003e] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff815afacc\u003e] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff815afacc\u003e] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:860\n    [\u003cffffffff844a3335\u003e] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]\n    [\u003cffffffff844a3335\u003e] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80\n    [\u003cffffffff84600068\u003e] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"24e7590c60aa9487b8e43583dc9885f62f8216c1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b9ee734a14bb685b2088f2176d82b34cb4e30dbc"},{"version":"c6617c61e8fe44b9e9fdfede921f61cac6b5149d","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"811f95ff95270e6048197821434d9301e3d7f07c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.16.3","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16.5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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