CVE-2022-26354

Se ha encontrado un fallo en el dispositivo vhost-vsock de QEMU. En caso de error, un elemento inválido no era desprendido de la virtqueue antes de liberar su memoria, conllevando a una pérdida de memoria y otros resultados no esperados. Versiones de QEMU afectadas anteriores a 6.2.0 incluyéndola

A flaw was found in the vhost-vsock device of QEMU. In case of error, an invalid element was not detached from the virtqueue before freeing its memory, leading to memory leakage and other unexpected results.

Alexander Bulekov discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled floppy disk emulation. A privileged attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly leak sensitive information. It was discovered that QEMU incorrectly handled NVME controller emulation. An attacker inside the guest could use this issue to cause QEMU to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.