CVE-2021-4158
Moderate
CVE-2021-4158
A 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.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
August 24, 2022
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 9, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
17 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2021-4158
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A 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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4158
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2035002
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/9bd6565ccee68f72d5012e24646e12a1c662827e
- https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/770
- https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel%40nongnu.org/msg857944.html