CVE-2022-49774

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel (affected versions not specified)

Description A vulnerability has been resolved in the Linux kernel related to KVM: x86/xen. The issue concerns the handling of eventfd errors in the kvm xen eventfd assign() function. Specifically, eventfd ctx put() should not be called in case of an error. Instead, a new goto target is introduced to handle the error correctly.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.