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CVE-2022-1050

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. This flaw allows a crafted guest driver to execute HW commands when shared buffers are not yet allocated, potentially leading to a use-after-free condition.

Affected products

• QEMU: before 2.20.1 — fixed in 2.20.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: QEMU 2.20.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2069625
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00013.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2069625
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00013.html

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