Vulnerability CVE-2022-4144


Published: 2022-11-29

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-125

(Out-of-bounds Read)

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2148506
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-11/msg04143.html

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