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High severity8.2NVD Advisory· Published Apr 29, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2021-4207

CVE-2021-4207

Description

A flaw was found in the QXL display device emulation in QEMU. A double fetch of guest controlled values cursor->header.width and cursor->header.height can lead to the allocation of a small cursor object followed by a subsequent heap-based buffer overflow. A malicious privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host or potentially execute arbitrary code within the context of the QEMU process.

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