CVE-2022-26353

A flaw was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This flaw was inadvertently introduced with the fix for CVE-2021-3748, which forgot to unmap the cached virtqueue elements on error, leading to memory leakage, use-after-free or other unexpected results. A malicious privileged guest could exploit this issue to crash QEMU or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process on the host.

Mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.