Memory Leak Affecting qemu-project/qemu package, versions [,7.0.0-rc0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QEMUPROJECTQEMU-2427722
  • published17 Mar 2022
  • disclosed28 Feb 2022
  • creditTom Victor

Introduced: 28 Feb 2022

CVE-2022-26354  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qemu-project/qemu to version 7.0.0-rc0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Leak via a missing call to virtqueue_detach_element() on error in the vhost_vsock_common_send_transport_reset() function in case an element from the virtqueue is invalid, before freeing its memory.

CVSS Scores

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