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CVE-2022-4172

Published: 11/29/2022 Last updated: 4/14/2025 Reserved: 11/28/2022

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.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 6.5 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Opam packages affected (2)

conf-qemu-img nbd-tool

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
QEMU (ACPI ERST) n/a unspecified

References (10)