CVE-2019-7222

An information leakage issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor handled page fault exceptions while emulating instructions like VMXON, VMCLEAR, VMPTRLD, and VMWRITE with memory address as an operand. It occurs if the operand is a mmio address, as the returned exception object holds uninitialized stack memory contents. A guest user/process could use this flaw to leak host's stack memory contents to a guest.

This issue does not affect the version of the kernel package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.

This issue affects the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Future kernel updates for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 may address this issue.

Note:- Impact on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 kernel is limited, as it requires that nested virtualization feature is enabled on a system. Nested Virtualization feature is available only as - Technology Preview.

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