First published: Fri Nov 25 2022(Updated: )
An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. The qxl_phys2virt() function does not check the size of the structure pointed to by the guest physical address, potentially reading past the end of the bar space into adjacent pages. A malicious guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host causing a denial of service condition.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
redhat/qemu-kvm | <7.2.0 | 7.2.0 |
QEMU KVM | <=7.1.0 | |
Fedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux | =8.0 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =37 | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux | =8.0 |
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The severity of CVE-2022-4144 is medium with a CVSS score of 6.5.
CVE-2022-4144 affects QEMU versions up to and including 7.1.0.
CVE-2022-4144 affects Fedora Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux version 8.0.
CVE-2022-4144 affects Fedora version 37.
CVE-2022-4144 affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 8.0.
To mitigate the vulnerability CVE-2022-4144, update QEMU to version 7.2.0 or later.
The CWE ID for CVE-2022-4144 is CWE-125.