Description
A flaw was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This flaw was inadvertently introduced with the fix for CVE-2021-3748, which forgot to unmap the cached virtqueue elements on error, leading to memory leakage and other unexpected results. Affected QEMU version: 6.2.0.
Metrics
CVSS 3.1 7.5/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | qemu-kvm | Affected QEMU version: 6.2.0 |
References
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/abe300d9d894f7138e1af7c8e9c88c04bfe98b37Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-03/msg02438.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0003/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5133Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/abe300d9d894f7138e1af7c8e9c88c04bfe98b37Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-03/msg02438.htmlMailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220425-0003/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5133Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Mar 16, 2022
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified