CVE-2022-4172 (GCVE-0-2022-4172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-29 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 18:10
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Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
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Vendor Product Version
n/a QEMU (ACPI ERST) Affected: Affected: 7.0.0, Fixed: 7.2.0-rc0
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