CVE-2021-20203

Name
CVE-2021-20203
Description
An integer overflow issue was found in the vmxnet3 NIC emulator of the QEMU for versions up to v5.2.0. It may occur if a guest was to supply invalid values for rx/tx queue size or other NIC parameters. A privileged guest user may use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario.
NVD Severity
low
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1922441
Exploit https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1913873
MLIST https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.html

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* qemu >= None <= 5.2.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
qemu 3.13-community 5.2.0-r3 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
qemu 3.10-main 4.0.1-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable
qemu 3.15-community 6.1.1-r0 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> fixed