Description
A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. An integer overflow in the cursor_alloc() function can lead to the allocation of a small cursor object followed by a subsequent heap-based buffer overflow. This flaw allows a malicious privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process.
References (6)
Scores
CVSS v3
8.2
EPSS
0.0016
EPSS Percentile
36.6%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-190
CWE-131
CWE-120
Status
published
Products (4)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
debian/debian_linux
11.0
qemu/qemu
< 7.0.0
redhat/enterprise_linux
8.0 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Apr 29, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026