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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-50227"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T11:03:59.885Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T08:57:47.222Z"
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-2022-50227"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-50227.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-50227"
title: "KVM: x86/xen: Initialize Xen timer only once"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nKVM: x86/xen: Initialize Xen timer only once\n\nAdd a check for existing xen timers before initializing a new one.\n\nCurrently kvm_xen_init_timer() is called on every\nKVM_XEN_VCPU_ATTR_TYPE_TIMER, which is causing the following ODEBUG\ncrash when vcpu-\u003earch.xen.timer is already set.\n\nODEBUG: init active (active state 0)\nobject type: hrtimer hint: xen_timer_callbac0\nRIP: 0010:debug_print_object+0x16e/0x250 lib/debugobjects.c:502\nCall Trace:\n__debug_object_init\ndebug_hrtimer_init\ndebug_init\nhrtimer_init\nkvm_xen_init_timer\nkvm_xen_vcpu_set_attr\nkvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl\nkvm_vcpu_ioctl\nvfs_ioctl"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"536395260582be7443b0b35b0bbb89ffe3947f62","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9a9b5771e930f408c3419799000f76a9abaf2278"},{"version":"536395260582be7443b0b35b0bbb89ffe3947f62","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"af735db31285fa699384c649be72a9f32ecbb665"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"5.19.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.19.*"},{"version":"6.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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