CVE-2021-3546

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jun 2, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: May 10, 2021

Description

An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. The flaw occurs while processing the 'VIRTIO_GPU_CMD_GET_CAPSET' command from the guest. It could allow a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected Products

Product	Versions
QEMUn/a	All QEMU versions up to and including 6.0Affected

References

[oss-security] 20210531 QEMU: security issues in vhost-user-gpumailing-list
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958978
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008/
DSA-4980vendor-advisory
GLSA-202208-27vendor-advisory

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