vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-4172: qemu -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 29, 2022
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-qemu
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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