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SUSE: CVE-2022-4172: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2022-4172: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/29/2022
Created
06/14/2023
Added
06/13/2023
Modified
06/13/2023

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(s)

  • suse-upgrade-qemu-tools

References

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