CVE-2021-3544

medium

Description

Several memory leaks were found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. They exist in contrib/vhost-user-gpu/vhost-user-gpu.c and contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c due to improper release of memory (i.e., free) after effective lifetime.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958935

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/31/1

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008/

https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4980

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2021-06-02

Updated: 2022-10-25

Type: CWE-401

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Impact Score: 2.9

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: LOW

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact Score: 4

Exploitability Score: 2

Severity: MEDIUM