CVE-2021-4158

MEDIUM

Qemu < 7.0.0 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/770
Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035002
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4158
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg857944.html

Scores

CVSS v3 6.0
EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 6.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (2)
qemu/qemu 6.0.0 - 7.0.0
redhat/enterprise_linux 9.0
Published Aug 24, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026