CVE-2022-4172

Summary

CVECVE-2022-4172
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-11-29 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:57:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-120

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 37 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu 7.0.0 - All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[PATCH v2] hw/acpi/erst.c: Fix memory handling issues - Christian A. Ehrhardt lore.kernel.org
erst: undefined-behavior in memcpy in write_erst_record (#1268) · Issues · QEMU / QEMU · GitLab MISC gitlab.com
hw/acpi/erst.c: Fix memory handling issues (defb7098) · Commits · QEMU / QEMU · GitLab MISC gitlab.com
[PATCH v2] hw/acpi/erst.c: Fix memory handling issues - Christian A. Ehrhardt MISC lore.kernel.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: qemu-7.0.0-12.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: qemu-7.0.0-12.fc37 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE-2022-4172 QEMU Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 160408 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (ELSA-2023-12065)
  • 160453 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:kvm_utils (ELSA-2023-12108)
  • 160507 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:kvm_utils2 (ELSA-2023-12195)
  • 160590 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm (ELSA-2023-2162)
  • 199428 Ubuntu Security Notification for QEMU Vulnerabilities (USN-6167-1)
  • 241416 Red Hat Update for qemu-kvm security (RHSA-2023:2162)
  • 283510 Fedora Security Update for qemu (FEDORA-2022-22b1f8dae2)
  • 941043 AlmaLinux Security Update for qemu-kvm (ALSA-2023:2162)
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