GSD-2021-4158
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23Details
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.
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