GHSA-9p4w-6fpq-fpm6

GHSA-9p4w-6fpq-fpm6 PUBLISHED CVSS 6 MEDIUM

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published August 25, 2022

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the ACPI code of QEMU. A malicious, privileged user within the guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Timeline

Aug 25, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
May 1, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-4158 advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7967 url
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035002 url
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/770 url
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg857944.html url
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1759 url
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4158 url
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/9bd6565ccee68f72d5012e24646e12a1c662827e url
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg857944.html url

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