CVE-2021-3544
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CVE-2021-3544 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6.5/10 on the CVSS scale. Several memory leaks were found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. They exist in contrib/vhost-user-gpu/vhost-user-gpu.c and contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c due to improper release of memory (i.e., free) after effective lifetime.. EPSS estimates a 0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
Several memory leaks were found in the virtio vhost-user GPU device (vhost-user-gpu) of QEMU in versions up to and including 6.0. They exist in contrib/vhost-user-gpu/vhost-user-gpu.c and contrib/vhost-user-gpu/virgl.c due to improper release of memory (i.e., free) after effective lifetime.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | <= 6.0.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | 11.0 |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/31/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958935Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4980Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/31/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958935Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008/Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4980Third Party Advisory
Timeline
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- Last Modified
- Status
- Modified
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