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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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | QEMU | affected up to 6.0.0 (including) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1951118
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https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210528-0005/
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[debian-lts-announce] 20220905 [SECURITY] [DLA 3099-1] qemu security update
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