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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49568"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-02-26T02:23:12.722Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:02:28.088Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
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-2022-49568"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49568.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49568"
title: "KVM: Don't null dereference ops-\u003edestroy"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: Don't null dereference ops-\u003edestroy\n\nA KVM device cleanup happens in either of two callbacks:\n1) destroy() which is called when the VM is being destroyed;\n2) release() which is called when a device fd is closed.\n\nMost KVM devices use 1) but Book3s's interrupt controller KVM devices\n(XICS, XIVE, XIVE-native) use 2) as they need to close and reopen during\nthe machine execution. The error handling in kvm_ioctl_create_device()\nassumes destroy() is always defined which leads to NULL dereference as\ndiscovered by Syzkaller.\n\nThis adds a checks for destroy!=NULL and adds a missing release().\n\nThis is not changing kvm_destroy_devices() as devices with defined\nrelease() should have been removed from the KVM devices list by then."
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