CVE-2022-36648

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2023-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-476

Description

The hardware emulation in the of_dpa_cmd_add_l2_flood of rocker device model in QEMU, as used in 7.0.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to crash the host qemu and potentially execute code on the host via execute a malformed program in the guest OS. Note: This has been disputed by multiple third parties as not a valid vulnerability due to the rocker device not falling within the virtualization use case.

Affected products

QEMU: through 7.0.0

References

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-06/msg04469.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0004/
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2022-06/msg04469.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231006-0004/

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