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Integer Overflow or Wraparound The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-guest-agent  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-QEMUGUESTAGENT-11454495
  • published5 Aug 2025
  • disclosed19 Oct 2022
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Introduced: 19 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-4172  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent package and not the qemu-guest-agent package as distributed by RHEL.

An integer overflow and buffer overflow issues were found in the ACPI Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) device of QEMU in the read_erst_record() and write_erst_record() functions. Both issues may allow the guest to overrun the host buffer allocated for the ERST memory device. A malicious guest could use these flaws to crash the QEMU process on the host.