🛡️ CVE-2022-1050 on Debian — qemu

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device. This flaw allows a crafted guest driver to execute HW commands when shared buffers are not yet allocated, potentially leading to a use-after-free condition.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2022-1050 as tracked by Debian, for the package qemu. The fix is available in version 1:7.1+dfsg-2; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1050 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1050 is recorded against 1 package.

  • qemu (fixed in 1:7.1+dfsg-2)

Timeline and source

Published on 29 March 2022 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2022-1050 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-03-29
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
qemu — 1:7.1+dfsg-2

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