CVE-2021-4158

NameCVE-2021-4158
DescriptionA NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the ACPI code of QEMU. A malicious, privileged user within the guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
qemu (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1:2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u23fixed
stretch (security)1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u17fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u19fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u12fixed
bullseye1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u3fixed
bullseye (security)1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2fixed
bookworm1:7.2+dfsg-7+deb12u7fixed
trixie1:9.1.1+ds-5fixed
sid1:9.1.2+ds-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
qemusourcejessie(not affected)
qemusourcestretch(not affected)
qemusourcebuster(not affected)
qemusourcebullseye(not affected)
qemusource(unstable)1:6.2+dfsg-2

Notes

[bullseye] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[buster] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[stretch] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035002
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/770
Introduced in: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/b32bd763a1ca929677e22ae1c51cb3920921bdce (v6.0.0-rc0)
Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/9bd6565ccee68f72d5012e24646e12a1c662827e
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-12/msg03692.html
[jessie] - qemu <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)

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