CVE-2022-4172

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedNov 29, 2022
First seenNov 29, 2022
Weakness typeCWE-120CWE-120

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemu7.0.0—
fedoraproject fedora37—

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