CVE-2021-3593

Description

An invalid pointer initialization issue was found in the SLiRP networking implementation of QEMU. The flaw exists in the udp6_input() function and could occur while processing a udp packet that is smaller than the size of the 'udphdr' structure. This issue may lead to out-of-bounds read access or indirect host memory disclosure to the guest. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects libslirp versions prior to 4.6.0.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1970487

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00002.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/03/msg00013.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GCKWZWY64EHTOQMLVLTSZ4AA27EWRJMH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SGPQZFVJCFGDSISFXPCQTTBBD7QZLJKI/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-44

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0004/

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3