CVE-2022-4144 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2022-4144

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the QXL display...

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

QEMU (QXL device)
Vulnerable Versions:
affects versions up to latest v7.1.0

Timeline

Official Publish: November 29th, 2022
Last Modified: April 14th, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)