CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4172
6.5 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-11-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
An integer overflow and buffer overflow issues were found in the ACPI Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) device of QEMU in the read_erst_record() and write_erst_record() functions. Both issues may allow the guest to overrun the host buffer allocated for the ERST memory device. A malicious guest could use these flaws to crash the QEMU process on the host.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu 7.0.0
• fedoraproject fedora 37
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/defb7098 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1268 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20221024154233.1043347-1-lk%40c--e.de/ lore.kernel.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230127-0013/ Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/defb7098 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1268 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20221024154233.1043347-1-lk%40c--e.de/ lore.kernel.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230127-0013/ Third Party Advisory