CVE-2021-3546

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3546
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-06-02 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-25 20:27:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
June 2021 QEMU Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4980-1 qemu DEBIAN www.debian.org
oss-security - QEMU: security issues in vhost-user-gpu MLIST www.openwall.com
QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-27) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
1958978 – (CVE-2021-3546) CVE-2021-3546 QEMU: vhost-user-gpu: out-of-bounds write in virgl_cmd_get_capset() MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159368 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (ELSA-2021-9425)
  • 159465 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (ELSA-2021-9425)
  • 159566 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kvm_utils (ELSA-2021-9568)
  • 178817 Debian Security Update for qemu (DSA 4980-1)
  • 184153 Debian Security Update for qemu (CVE-2021-3546)
  • 198432 Ubuntu Security Notification for QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-5010-1)
  • 198683 Ubuntu Security Notification for QEMU Vulnerabilities (USN-5307-1)
  • 502356 Alpine Linux Security Update for qemu
  • 671198 EulerOS Security Update for qemu (EulerOS-SA-2022-1034)
  • 671203 EulerOS Security Update for qemu (EulerOS-SA-2022-1014)
  • 710604 Gentoo Linux QEMU Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-27)
  • 750821 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:2213-1)
  • 750827 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:1043-1)
  • 900061 CBL-Mariner Linux Security Update for qemu-kvm 4.2.0
  • 903036 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (4328)
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