CVE-2021-3638

medium

Description

An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations when the guest provides invalid values for the destination display parameters. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3638

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0003/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979858

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-03

Updated: 2023-02-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium