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CVE-2021-3507

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CVE-2021-3507

Published: May 6, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

A heap buffer overflow was found in the floppy disk emulator of QEMU up to 6.0.0 (including). It could occur in fdctrl_transfer_handler() in hw/block/fdc.c while processing DMA read data transfers from the floppy drive to the guest system. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in DoS scenario, or potential information leakage from the host memory.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

QEMU

affected
up to 6.0.0 (including)

Weaknesses (CWE)

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