CVE-2021-4145: Qemu

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A NULL pointer dereference issue was found in the block mirror layer of QEMU in versions prior to 6.2.0. The `self` pointer is dereferenced in mirror_wait_on_conflicts() without ensuring that it's not NULL. A malicious unprivileged user within the guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host when writing data reaches the threshold of mirroring node.

Affected products

  • Qemu Qemu: version 6.1.0 only
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux: version 8.0 only

Published 2022-01-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.