Medium severity6.0NVD Advisory· Published Feb 24, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-3608
CVE-2021-3608
Description
A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest and may result in a crash of QEMU or cause undefined behavior due to the access of an uninitialized pointer. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Affected products
26- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- osv-coords21 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu-linux-user&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/opensuse/qemu-testsuite&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Enterprise%20Storage%206pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-ESPOSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20High%20Performance%20Computing%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Micro%205.0pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Server%20Applications%2015%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-BCLpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2015%20SP1-LTSSpkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2015%20SP1pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Proxy%204.0pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Retail%20Branch%20Server%204.0pkg:rpm/suse/qemu&distro=SUSE%20Manager%20Server%204.0
< 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1+ 20 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 6.1.0-32.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-lp152.9.20.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-11.25.2
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-11.25.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.2.1-11.25.2
- (no CPE)range: < 5.2.0-23.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-54.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-54.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.1.1-9.30.2
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-06/msg07926.htmlnvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27nvdThird Party Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0002/nvdThird Party Advisory
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