CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-3544
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-06-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
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.
Affected configurations
• qemu qemu (<= 6.0.0)
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/31/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958935 Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4980 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/31/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1958935 Issue Tracking
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-27 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210720-0008/ Third Party Advisory
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4980 Third Party Advisory