A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the SCSI emulation support of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0. This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Weakness
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | * | 6.0.0 (excluding) |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | esm-infra-legacy/trusty | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | esm-infra/bionic | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | esm-infra/focal | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | esm-infra/xenial | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | groovy | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | hirsute | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | impish | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | jammy | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | lunar | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | noble | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | oracular | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | plucky | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | questing | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | trusty/esm | * |
| Qemu | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
| Qemu-kvm | Ubuntu | precise/esm | * |
Potential Mitigations
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/16/3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1909766
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210713-0006/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/16/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/16/3
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1909766
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210713-0006/
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/04/16/3