Security Advisory

CVE-2022-4172

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-11-29 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-04-14 18:10:14
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.