CVE-2021-3608
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CVE-2021-3608 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6/10 on the CVSS scale. A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest and may result in a crash of QEMU or cause undefined behavior due to the access of an uninitialized pointer. EPSS estimates a 0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
A flaw was found in the QEMU implementation of VMWare's paravirtual RDMA device in versions prior to 6.1.0. The issue occurs while handling a "PVRDMA_REG_DSRHIGH" write from the guest and may result in a crash of QEMU or cause undefined behavior due to the access of an uninitialized pointer. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Qemu | Qemu | < 6.1.0 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | 10.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 34 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973383Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-06/msg07926.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0002/Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1973383Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00008.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-06/msg07926.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220318-0002/Third Party Advisory
Timeline
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- Status
- Modified
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