CVE-2021-3735

medium

Description

A deadlock issue was found in the AHCI controller device of QEMU. It occurs on a software reset (ahci_reset_port) while handling a host-to-device Register FIS (Frame Information Structure) packet from the guest. A privileged user inside the guest could use this flaw to hang the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service condition. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3735

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1997184

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3735

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-08-26

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.4

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

Severity: Medium