CVE-2022-4144

NameCVE-2022-4144
DescriptionAn 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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3vulnerable
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2vulnerable
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
trixie1:9.2.0+ds-2fixed
sid1:9.2.0+ds-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusource(unstable)1:7.2+dfsg-1

Notes

[bullseye] - qemu <ignored> (Minor issue)
[buster] - qemu <postponed> (Minor issue, DoS)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2148506
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-11/msg04143.html
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1336
Pre-requisite 1: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/61c34fc194b776ecadc39fb26b061331107e5599 (v7.2.0-rc3)
Pre-requisite 2: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/8efec0ef8bbc1e75a7ebf6e325a35806ece9b39f (v7.2.0-rc3)
Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/6dbbf055148c6f1b7d8a3251a65bd6f3d1e1f622 (v7.2.0-rc3)

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