CVE-2022-0216

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    CVE-2022-0216

    Published: 26 Aug 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the LSI53C895A SCSI Host Bus Adapter emulation of QEMU. The flaw occurs while processing repeated messages to cancel the current SCSI request via the lsi_do_msgout function. This flaw allows a malicious privileged user within the guest to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-0216, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/0xxx/CVE-2022-0216.json, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZTY7TVHX62OJWF6IOBCIGLR2N5K4QN3E/, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0216, https://starlabs.sg/advisories/22/22-0216/, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2036953, https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/972, https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/4367a20cc4

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -609d7596524ab204ccd71ef42c9eee4c7c338ea4

    Affected versions

    v6.0.0-rc5
    v6.0.0-rc4
    v6.0.0-rc3
    v6.0.0-rc2
    v6.0.0-rc1
    v6.0.0-rc0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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