CVE-2022-4172 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting QEMU, specifically within its ACPI Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) device. It involves integer and buffer overflow issues in the read_erst_record() and write_erst_record() functions, potentially allowing a malicious guest to overrun host buffers and crash the QEMU process. With a CVSS score of 6.5, this local attack requires low privileges and has high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
7.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:7.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
37CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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