CVE-2021-3748

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3748
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-03-23 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-01-03 15:16:00 UTC
DescriptionA use-after-free vulnerability was found in the virtio-net device of QEMU. It could occur when the descriptor's address belongs to the non direct access region, due to num_buffers being set after the virtqueue elem has been unmapped. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash QEMU, resulting in a denial of service condition, or potentially execute code on the host with the privileges of the QEMU process.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 20.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 21.10 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization Eus 8.4 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2021-3748 QEMU Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
[PATCH] virtio-net: fix use after unmap/free for sg MISC lists.nongnu.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3099-1] qemu security update MLIST lists.debian.org
CVE-2021-3748 | Ubuntu MISC ubuntu.com
1998514 – (CVE-2021-3748) CVE-2021-3748 QEMU: virtio-net: heap use-after-free in virtio_net_receive_rcu MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
QEMU: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202208-27) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2970-1] qemu security update MLIST lists.debian.org
virtio-net: fix use after unmap/free for sg · qemu/qemu@bedd7e9 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159858 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:ol and virt-devel:ol (ELSA-2022-1759)
  • 159862 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (ELSA-2022-9432)
  • 159880 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for kvm_utils (ELSA-2022-9460)
  • 159903 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for olcne (ELSA-2022-9492)
  • 159904 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for olcne (ELSA-2022-9493)
  • 159906 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for olcne (ELSA-2022-9491)
  • 159908 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for olcne (ELSA-2022-9494)
  • 178817 Debian Security Update for qemu (DSA 4980-1)
  • 179172 Debian Security Update for qemu (DLA 2970-1)
  • 180995 Debian Security Update for qemu (DLA 3099-1)
  • 182990 Debian Security Update for qemu (CVE-2021-3748)
  • 198683 Ubuntu Security Notification for QEMU Vulnerabilities (USN-5307-1)
  • 240292 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security (RHSA-2022:1759)
  • 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)
  • 751276 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:3519-1)
  • 751322 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:3614-1)
  • 751323 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:3613-1)
  • 751330 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:3614-1)
  • 751332 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:3605-1)
  • 751334 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:3604-1)
  • 751337 OpenSUSE Security Update for qemu (openSUSE-SU-2021:1461-1)
  • 751338 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:3635-1)
  • 751362 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for qemu (SUSE-SU-2021:3653-1)
  • 900773 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (9111)
  • 901656 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu (9121)
  • 902027 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (9111-1)
  • 902087 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu (9121-1)
  • 940525 AlmaLinux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALSA-2022:1759)
  • 960314 Rocky Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RLSA-2022:1759)
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