Alpine: multiple qemu packages: security update to 6.0.0-r1 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400220

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- A flaw was found in the USB redirector device (usb-redir) of QEMU. Small USB packets are combined into a
single, large transfer request, to reduce the overhead and improve performance. The combined size of the
bulk transfer is used to dynamically allocate a variable length array (VLA) on the stack without proper
validation. Since the total size is not bounded, a malicious guest could use this flaw to influence the
array length and cause the QEMU process to perform an excessive allocation on the stack, resulting in a
denial of service. (CVE-2021-3527)

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400220

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3527

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3527

Detections

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