CVE-2021-3409
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CVE-2021-3409 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5.7/10 on the CVSS scale. The patch for CVE-2020-17380/CVE-2020-25085 was found to be ineffective, thus making QEMU vulnerable to the out-of-bounds read/write access issues previously found in the SDHCI controller emulation code. This flaw allows a malicious privileged guest to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. EPSS estimates a 0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
The patch for CVE-2020-17380/CVE-2020-25085 was found to be ineffective, thus making QEMU vulnerable to the out-of-bounds read/write access issues previously found in the SDHCI controller emulation code. This flaw allows a malicious privileged guest to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. QEMU up to (including) 5.2.0 is affected by this.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | <= 5.2.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | 7.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 33 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | 9.0 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928146Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0001/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/09/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928146Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/04/msg00009.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210507-0001/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/03/09/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Last Modified
- Status
- Modified
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