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CVE-2021-4158

Published: 24 December 2021

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
introduced in 6.0.0

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.0

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
qemu
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Not vulnerable
(code not present)
focal Not vulnerable
(code not present)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(code not present)
impish
Released (1:6.0+dfsg-2expubuntu1.2)
jammy
Released (1:6.2+dfsg-2ubuntu5)
trusty Not vulnerable
(code not present)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Not vulnerable
(code not present)
Patches:
upstream: https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commit;h=9bd6565ccee68f72d5012e24646e12a1c662827e

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.0
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H