CVE-2021-3682

Name
CVE-2021-3682
Description
A flaw was found in the USB redirector device emulation of QEMU in versions prior to 6.1.0-rc2. It occurs when dropping packets during a bulk transfer from a SPICE client due to the packet queue being full. A malicious SPICE client could use this flaw to make QEMU call free() with faked heap chunk metadata, resulting in a crash of QEMU or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process on the host.
NVD Severity
high
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
MISC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1989651
Third Party Advisory https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210902-0006/
Third Party Advisory https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00000.html
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 < 6.1.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
qemu 3.14-community 6.0.0-r5 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> possibly vulnerable