CVE-2022-3165

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Oct 17, 2022
Updated: May 14, 2025
Reserved: Sep 8, 2022

Description

An integer underflow issue was found in the QEMU VNC server while processing ClientCutText messages in the extended format. A malicious client could use this flaw to make QEMU unresponsive by sending a specially crafted payload message, resulting in a denial of service.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-191

Affected Products

Product	Versions
QEMUn/a	Affected 6.1.0 and later. Will be fixed in 7.2.0-rc0.Affected

References

https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/d307040b18
FEDORA-2022-8dcdfe7297vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2022-4387579e67vendor-advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221223-0006/

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