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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2022-4144

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.

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7 Nov 2026, 13:34 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2022-4144

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Nov 2022, 00:00 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2022-4144
Complete source record
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