Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 2, 2021· Updated Aug 3, 2024
CVE-2021-3546
CVE-2021-3546
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.
Affected products
1Patches
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References
5- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4980mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/31/1mitremailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgimitrex_refsource_MISC
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008/mitrex_refsource_CONFIRM
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