CVE-2022-26353: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. This flaw was inadvertently introduced with the fix for CVE-2021-3748, which forgot to unmap the cached virtqueue elements on error, leading to memory leakage and other unexpected results. Affected QEMU version: 6.2.0.

Affected products

  • Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
  • Qemu Qemu: version 6.2.0 only

Published 2022-03-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.