CVE-2021-3546

Name
CVE-2021-3546
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.
NVD Severity
high
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
MISC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958978
MLIST http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/31/1
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008/
Third Party Advisory https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4980

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* qemu >= None <= 6.0.0

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 3.14-community 6.0.0-r5 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable