6.5
MEDIUM
CVE-2022-4144
Qemu QXL Out-of-Bounds Read Denial of Service Vulnerability
Description

An 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.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 29, 2022, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 3:57 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

4.0

Exploitability Score :

2.0
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-4144 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Fedoraproject fedora
2 Fedoraproject extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux
1 Redhat enterprise_linux
1 Qemu qemu
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2022-4144 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2022-4144 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/
    Removed Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Mar. 29, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230127-0012/ No Types Assigned https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230127-0012/ Third Party Advisory
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 27, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230127-0012/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jan. 19, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Jan. 10, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 14, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 01, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2148506 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2148506 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-11/msg04143.html No Types Assigned https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-11/msg04143.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 7.1.0
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.04 }} 0.00%

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0.12150

percentile

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