CVE-2021-3608

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3608
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-02-24 19:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-26 13:29:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-824

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3099-1] qemu security update MLIST lists.debian.org
1973383 – (CVE-2021-3608) CVE-2021-3608 QEMU: pvrdma: uninitialized memory unmap in pvrdma_ring_init() MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
February 2022 QEMU Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-27) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[PATCH] pvrdma: Fix the ring init error flow (CVE-2021-3608) MISC lists.gnu.org
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)
  • 180249 Debian Security Update for qemu (CVE-2021-3608)
  • 180995 Debian Security Update for qemu (DLA 3099-1)
  • 198432 Ubuntu Security Notification for QEMU vulnerabilities (USN-5010-1)
  • 710604 Gentoo Linux QEMU Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-27)
  • 750874 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:2442-1)
  • 750879 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:2448-1)
  • 750901 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:2474-1)
  • 750910 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:2591-1)
  • 750912 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:2591-1)
  • 751053 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:1202-1)
  • 900706 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (8815)
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