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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958978

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3