CVE-2022-26354

LOW
3.2
CVSS Score
Published: March 16, 2022 at 02:02 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:35 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsDebian LinuxQEMU

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Severity
LOW3.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%

Description

A flaw was found in the vhost-vsock device of QEMU. In case of error, an invalid element was not detached from the virtqueue before freeing its memory, leading to memory leakage and other unexpected results. Affected QEMU versions <= 6.2.0.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (6)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00002.html
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5133

CVSS

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-772

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