CVE-2021-3546

high

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

Source: MITRE

Published: 2021-06-02

Updated: 2022-10-25

Type: CWE-787

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.2

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

Impact Score: 6

Exploitability Score: 1.5

Severity: HIGH