CVE-2021-3638
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CVE-2021-3638 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6.5/10 on the CVSS scale. An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations when the guest provides invalid values for the destination display parameters. EPSS estimates a 0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
An out-of-bounds memory access flaw was found in the ATI VGA device emulation of QEMU. This flaw occurs in the ati_2d_blt() routine while handling MMIO write operations when the guest provides invalid values for the destination display parameters. A malicious guest could use this flaw to crash the QEMU process on the host, resulting in a denial of service.
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 | >= 4.0.0, <= 6.1.0 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 36 |
| Fedoraproject | Fedora | 37 |
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979858Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg01682.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0003/Third Party Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3638Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1979858Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GTVPHLLXJ65BUMFBUUZ35F3J632SLFRK/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/I7J5IRXJYLELW7D43A75LOWRUE5EU54O/Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg01682.htmlExploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220407-0003/Third Party Advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-3638Third Party Advisory
Timeline
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- Status
- Modified
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