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CVE-2022-4172
medium
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.
References
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230127-0013/
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20221024154233.1043347-1-lk%40c--e.de/