Low severity · published Mar 16, 2022
CVE-2022-26354
A flaw was found in the vhost-vsock device of QEMU
3.2
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw was found in the vhost-vsock device of QEMU. In case of error, an invalid element was not detached from the virtqueue before freeing its memory, leading to memory leakage and other unexpected results. Affected QEMU versions <= 6.2.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0; 10.0 · source: NVD
QE
Qemu · Qemu
through 6.2.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-26354
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-26354
Patch
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/8d1b247f3748ac4078524130c6d7ae42b6140aaf
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00002.html
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0003/
Third Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5133
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