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CVE-2021-3546

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CVE-2021-3546

Published: Jun 2, 2021

Modified: Aug 3, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

An 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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

QEMU

affected
All QEMU versions up to and including 6.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

DSA-4980
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
GLSA-202208-27
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO

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